Re: Modern Greek dialects (was: GSF revisited)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 12, 2007, 12:42 |
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On 5/12/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Cretan Greek has more advanced palatalization than the standard language
> & this even affects borrowings such as _kilo_ which is pronounce /tSilo/.
Ah yes, that reminds me of the Cypriot word for "over there",
/po'tSi/, presumably from από εκεί. So that kind of thing probably
happens there, too.
> I don't know whether this
> applies to Cyprus, but in some areas, e.g. Crete, the old 3rd person
> plural present tense ending -ουσι survived
I've heard it said about Cypriot Greek, too.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>