Project

The documentation of Cappadocian, a seriously endagngered minority language in Greece

Code
01Z09507
Duration
01 February 2008 → 31 January 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Greek language
    • Diachronic linguistics
    • Historical linguistics
    • Synchronic linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Cappadocian greek Asia Minor Greek language death folklore endagered languages mixed languages Turkish language contact
 
Project description

Cappadocian is a seriously endagnered Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Greece by Orthodox-Christian immigrants following the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. The research focuses on the documentation of Cappadocian (grammar, lexicon, text corpora), the sociolinguistic status of the language in bi- and trilingual language communities (Cappadocian, Greek, Turkish) and the prospects for revitalisation.