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		The population of Cyprus is 793.100 of whom 80,7% are Greek Cypriots (including Armenians, Maronites and Latins), 87,600 (11,0%) are Turkish Cypriots and 66,000 (8,3%) foreigners residing in Cyprus.
		The language of the Greek Cypriot community is Greek and the community adheres to the Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus.
		The capital of the island is Nicosia with a population of 206.200 (end of 2001) in the sector controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus.
	www.rentholidayvillacyprus.com /about_cyprus.php (4993 words)

	Dialect - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Varieties of language such as dialects, idiolects and sociolects can be distinguished not only by their vocabulary and grammar, but also by differences in phonology (including prosody).
		Those who identify a particular dialect as the "standard" or "proper" version of a language are in fact using these terms to express a social distinction.
		A dialect continuum is a network of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are mutually comprehensible, but with comprehensibility steadily decreasing as distance between the dialects increases.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dialect (1571 words)

	Dialect Encyclopedia Article @ Thereupon.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
		Another such network of dialects is the one that exists among the Eastern Slavic languages, among which Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian are recognized as three literary standards.
		Another is the continuum of the Scandinavian languages and dialects, from Swedish dialects of Finland, to Swedish, Gutniska, Älvdalsmål, Scanian, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Faroese, Icelandic, as well as many local dialects of the respective languages.
	www.thereupon.org /encyclopedia/Dialect (2093 words)

	greek language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Another characteristic dialect is the Corfiat dialect and in general the Eptanesian dialect (in the islands of Corfu and the island complex of Eptanissa in general).
		The Peloponese dialect, the Thessalian and Central Greek dialect, the Macedonian and Thracian dialect and the Epirus and Western Greek dialect.
		The Peloponese dialect which is very close to that of Athens is actually nowadays not distinctable from the common greek of Athens with the exception of the sounds lee and nee which are pronounced as the italian gli and the spanish ~n by Peloponesians.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=4945#55157 (3098 words)

	Cypriot Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In general, the stronger the use of dialect in a speaker (closer to the basilect), the more likely he is to be perceived as a villager (χώρκατος) or of an uneducated and poor background.
		The modern Cypriot dialect is not an evolution of the ancient Arcadocypriot dialect, but evolved from Koine.
		The legislation of the Kingdom of Cyprus in the Middle Ages was written in the dialect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cypriot_dialect (1205 words)

	Dialect Encyclopedia Article @ Didst.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The term idiom is used by some linguists instead of language or dialect when there is no need to commit oneself to any decision on the status with respect to this distinction.
		A well-known example is the Dutch-German dialect continuum, a vast network of dialects with 2 recognized literary standards.
		Some however would argue that Swedish and the southern dialect of Scanian are far apart enough to be considered different languages, assuming that the other Scandinavian languages are also separate languages and not dialects.
	www.didst.org /encyclopedia/Dialect (2093 words)

	Greek Cypriots
		The Greek Cypriots trace their origins to the descendants of the Achaean Greeks and later the Mycenaean Greeks, who settled on the island during the second half of the second millennium B.C. The island gradually became part of the Hellenic world as the settlers prospered over the next centuries.
		The Greek Cypriot language is an idiom (sometimes falsily labeled as 'dialect') distinct from the formal Greek language (note that different dialects exist on many of the Greek islands) as it is spoken in mainland Greece.
		Although all Cypriots understand mainland Greeks (as the vast majority of Greek language media is produced in mainland Greek), and all Cypriots are taught standard Greek in the Cypriot educational system, the Cypriot variety is not always mutually intelligible with the standard variant (mainly because of local pronunciation and idiomatic structures).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/GreekCypriots.html (948 words)

	Olga Tsoudis, THE PORTRAYAL OF CRIME IN THE CYPRIOT MEDIA:
		This exploratory study of Cypriot media and crime focuses on evidence of coverage of social sanctions in the media’s portrayal of criminal justice.
		Because research on the relationship between Cypriot society and crime is scarce, examining the family is one avenue by which we can understand the society, since the family directly influences individual behaviors and the overall functioning of the society (Georgas et al.
		The majority of Cypriots state (1) that tourists have a negative effect on the Cypriot way of life; (2) that tourism changes the traditional culture; and (3) that tourism decreases the lifestyle quality of Cypriots who live in tourist areas (Akis et al.
	wcr.sonoma.edu /v3n1/tsoudis.html (5782 words)

	TRANS Nr. 16: Marilena Karyolemou (University of Cyprus): Reproduction and innovation of communicative patterns in a ...
		The idea that the relationship between the Cypriot variety (hereafter CV) and standard Greek (hereafter SG) is a naturally ordered, harmonious relationship of the kind we find between a mother and her daughter seems to have pertained until the ’90’s.
		Although, in their quality as conservative varieties, CV and K share several features(1), it could be the case that the considerable structural distance between the Cypriot variety and the purist form of Greek acted as a shield against the erosion of the former.
		As a consequence, a word such as αδειάζω "to empty" is marked as dialectal not because of its fundamental difference with a corresponding SG word - the dialect word would be φκερώννω [fcerónno] - but because it is pronounced [a θ cázo] and not [a δ jázo], which is the standard pronunciation.
	www.inst.at /trans/16Nr/01_4/karyolemou16.htm (4962 words)

	Cyprus :: Turkish words in Greek Cypriot dialect
		Niasin said that most Greek Cypriots were aware of which words originated in Turkish.
		However most of the Greek and Turkish words common to the Cypriot dialect are nowadays more well known among the older generation.
		There are certainly a lot of Turkish words used in the Cypriot Dialect, however is funny that in this article the words that come as an example are widely used in mainland greek dialects as well, even in Athens.
	www.cyprus-forum.com /cyprus6114-10.html (1632 words)

	North Cyprus: The Spoken Arabic Dialect Of The Maronites Of Cyprus
		While all of these dialects are generally mutually intelligible, differences appear in the pronunciation of the Arabic letters (phonology), the grammatical structure of sentences (morphology), the vocabulary for everyday speech, and the extent of incorporation of foreign loanwords.
		The Syrio-Lebanese dialect has a number of significant characteristics, a few of which are: the unvoiced letter qaff (which is treated as a glottal stop), changing of the interdental letters (thaa and dhaal) to stops, the future marker rah, the present tense verbal marker bi-, and the simplification of verb conjugations from standard Arabic.
		The dialect’s long isolation from the main currents of the Arab world has caused it to develop on a track of its own, to such an extent that it is practically unintelligible to native speakers of Arabic.
	www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/people/cypmaronites/dialect.html (2210 words)

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		The Greek Cypriots are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians, members of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous church headed by an Archbishop.
		The Greek Cypriot language is an idiom (sometimes falsily, or in non-linguistic context, labeled as \'dialect\') distinct from the formal Greek language (note that different idioms exist on many of the Greek islands) as it is spoken in mainland Greece.
		The Greek Cypriot language is a source of pride for the Greek Cypriot population - many Greek Cypriots consider the dialect to be closer to the Classical Greek language than standard Greek, thus providing a direct linkage between Greek Cypriots and noted ancient Greeks such as Homer and Plato.
	www.vannuyscaus.com /details/Greek_Cypriot (1215 words)

	'X' Marks the Spot
		Woodard determined that certain characteristic features of the ancient Cypriot script - particularly its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic system.
		These symbols in the Cypriot Syllabary, representing the sounds "ksa" and "kse" in the Cypriot dialect, were forerunners of the letter "x."
		After making the connection to the Cypriot script through the letter "x," Woodard worked on other connections, such as the fact that the Greeks had incorporated vowel characters into the Phoenician script, which only had consonant symbols.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/3208.html (1264 words)

	Dialect Encyclopedia Article @ Therefrom.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		For dialects of programming languages, see Programming language dialect.
		Language varieties are often called dialects rather than languages
		This is perhaps the most widely cited statement of an analogy that has been attributed to other authors.
	www.therefrom.net /encyclopedia/Dialect (2093 words)

	Treasures of Cypriot Art
		The style of Cypriot art evolved as new ethnic groups brought their influences to the island; sculptural styles, representations of deities and humans, and religious beliefs from Greek inhabitants coalesced as Cyprus was repeatedly conquered and re-settled.
		While earlier sculptural representations of the human form had focused on pregnancy and childbirth, Cypriots now turned to flat, plank-shaped terracotta images of females with incised facial features and geometric decoration, many with pierced ears, headdresses and necklaces.
		From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism" was organized by Dr. Sophocles Hadjisavvas, Director of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /cypriotart.html (1302 words)

	CDP Theatre page
		The play ‘ Migratory Birds’ especially written for the Cypriot Diaspora Project by Christos Prossylis, was performed by the GPA Youth theatre group to a full house at the Intimate theatre on Sunday 11th June 2006.
		They are thrilled by the wonderful traditional music which accompanies the play and which is sang with emotion, a capella, like the song of loneliness and struggle from the lips of an immigrant during long hours of labour.
		I would like to thank the Cypriot Diaspora Project Committee for their support in the creation and presentation of this play.
	www.cypriotdiaspora.com /docs/theatre.htm (461 words)

	English Studies - People - Faculty
		Pavlou, P. The semantic adaptation of Turkish loan-words in the Greek Cypriot Dialect.
		The use of dialectal and foreign language elements in radio commercials and their function in the construction of contemporary Cypriot identity.
		Pavlou, P. The use of the Greek Cypriot dialect in the commercials of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
	www.hum.ucy.ac.cy /ENG/people/pavlou.htm (1299 words)

	Cyprus
		Greek Cypriot official sources provided the following breakdown for the island as a whole in 1977: 735,900 total, of whom 623,200 are Greek (84.7 percent), 90,600 are Turkish (12.3 percent), and 22,100 (3 percent) are foreigners.
		Turkey reacted with a military offensive that caused enormous suffering among Greek Cypriots, 170,000 of whom were displaced from the 37 percent of the island that came under the control of Turkey.
		The Turkish Cypriot regime is a parliamentary democracy with a marked political, military, and economic dependence on Turkey.
	www.everyculture.com /Cr-Ga/Cyprus.html (4869 words)

	Cypriot Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		While the earliest examples, which date from as early as 1500 BC, cannot be read, comparisons clearly show that the Cypriot syllabary seemed to have derived from Linear A, and so sort of like a sibling to Linear B.
		The origin from Linear A is doubtless, though scientists suppose there were some intermediate forms between Cretan Linear A and the Cypriot script.
		If a syllable contained two consonants, Cypriots could not but write it in two syings, ie.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/script/cypri.html (325 words)

	Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Greek Cypriots formed a National Guard and, in order to deter a Turkish invasion, an army division from mainland Greece was sent to Cyprus in 1964 to be withdrawn in 1967.
		Turkish Cypriot defense was at the hands of Turkish officers who eventually came to control the civic and political affairs of the Turkish Cypriot community as well.
		As a result of the invasion, about 200,000 Greek Cypriots became refugees and were forced to move to the south, while 40,000 Turkish Cypriots were transferred from the government controlled southern part of Cyprus to the Turkish-occupied north.
	maxpages.com /mrousou/More_on_Cyprus - !http://maxpages.com/mrousou/More_on_Cyprus (2419 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		This paper describes the Cypriot Greek speech database collected in the framework of the European project OrienTel (IST-2000-28373) and the acoustic models adaptation techniques that were applied in order to perform dialect adaptation from Greek to Cypriot.
		That is, Cypriot Greek may be considered as a variation of standard Greek.
		Pure Cypriot Greek models are also trained using only the Cypriot Greek database, to be compared with the adapted ones.
	nl.ijs.si /sdjt/bib/lrec04/summaries/531.htm (228 words)

	Benjamin Polen
		An exception to this in the Peloponnese occurs in Arcadia, where the Dorians did not penetrate the center, mountainous region and therefore allowed the local dialect to continue as late as classical times.
		Classical Cypriot was related to Linear B, seven signs are equated, and others show resemblance.
		The syllabary in the main variant and the south-western, Paphian region represented the Cypriot dialect and was the eastern branch of the Arcado-Cypriot group
	www.allenwood.org /essays/cypruswriting.html (2087 words)

	Cypriot Greek
		The Cypriot dialect of Greek (Cypriot Greek or Kypriaka) is spoken by more than half a million people in Cyprus and several hundred thousands abroad.
		In modern times, the dialect has been mainly used in poetry, including works by such major poets as Vasilis Mihailidis and Dimitris Lipertis.
		Archaisms: In the dialect, double consonants are pronounced differently from single consonants (unlike Standard Modern Greek).
	www.mlahanas.de /Cyprus/LX/CypriotGreek.html (425 words)

	Dom Research Center - Reprint Series - Gypsies in Cyprus
		This is common in speech and comes from earlier 'Aigiptos', a reference to the earlier belief that the Gypsies came from Egypt.
		Some non-Gypsies have divided the Cypriot Gypsies into two classes, one responsible for all the petty crime, and the other romantic and good-a common phenomenon elsewhere./4/ However, no detailed analysis has been made.
		The overall impression from a series of interviews with Cypriots in London indicated that most Gypsies lead a relaxed and unrestricted way of life.
	www.domresearchcenter.com /reprints/body4.html (1005 words)

	Birthplace Of Greek Alphabet Identified
		But "one foot also rests on a shoulder of the syllabic script of Cypriot Greeks," writes Roger D. Woodard, Ph.D., in his book "Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy" (Oxford University Press, 1997).
		Woodard determined that certain characteristic features of the ancient Cypriot script -- particularly its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology -- were transferred to the new alphabetic system.
		In applying the sonority hierarchy strategy, the scribes would have had to "cross over" the symbols -- a very awkward way to spell -- to write a sound representing a "stop-fricative-stop" sequence using consonant-vowel symbols.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-12/UoSC-BOGA-151297.php (1142 words)

	Cyprus bicommunal discussion and chat forum : Writing the Cypriot dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The use of Latin script is, of course, deliberate as it makes the original words and sounds more accessible to those not familiar with the Greek alphabet - so that all are able to share in their poetic and evocative beauty.
		Oh, i understand that Cypriot, but im just contemplating a new script for the cypriot dialect in general, rather than greek.
		i duno, the latin script doesnt seem like it would expresss the cypriot dialect either as well..maybe a mix of the two would work...
	www.talkcyprus.org /forum/about3285.html (843 words)

	Hamamböcüleri Alternatif Haberler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Turkish Cypriot artist Umit Inatci is also being awarded for his work in bringing together Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot painters in an extensive anthology and for his progressive contribution to art and literature.
		The Turkish Cypriot Orthopedic Disabilities Association is also being awarded for creating a rehabilitation center for the disabled, with European standards.
		Erdogan Saracoglu is being awarded for his scientific work on the Turkish Cypriot dialect and Aydin Hikmet is being awarded for his contribution to Turkish Music.
	www.stwing.upenn.edu /~durduran/hamambocu/haberler/fullnews.php?id=1226 (229 words)

	Cypriot syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The Cypriot syllabary is thought to have developed from the Linear A though its exact origins are not known.
		The Cypriot dialect of Greek, and also some other languages which have yet to be deciphered.
		Blackfoot, Caroline Island Script, Carrier, Celtiberian, Cherokee, Cree, Cypriot, Hiragana, Iberian, Inuktitut, Katakana, Kpelle, Loma, Mende, Ndjuká, Ojibwe, Vai, Yi
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cypriot.htm (144 words)

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