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Day: September 24, 2009

Maronite Arabic in Cyprus

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek, Other Languages
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Cyprus, though quirks of history, has been more sanguine about linguistic diversity than Greece has been. I remember my Cypriot father’s shrugged “yeah, there were some Armenians too, and a village of Maronites“, vs my Cretan mother’s astonished retelling of her first encounter with her sister’s new (Arvanite) in-laws: “And all of a sudden… they […]

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