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Day: June 20, 2016

How do you say welcome in Greek?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

I normally pass on answering these readily Googleable questions, unless I can say something linguistically interesting about them. It’s your lucky day, Anon. Two main ways of rendering “welcome” in Modern Greek. 1. Καλώς ήρθες (singular), καλώς ήρθατε (plural): kalos irθes, kalos irθate. Literally, “well you came”; so it corresponds exactly to English welcome. More […]

Do Greek villages near Albania use Albanian words, just like those in Albania use Greek loanwords?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

In brief, yes. First, we need to define “near Albania”. Let’s start with this map from Languages of Greece I’m going to ignore Arvanitika in Central Greece, because that’s nowhere near Albania. I’m going to ignore the Albanian enclaves near Florina, because they were traditionally surrounded by Macedonian Slavonic, rather than Greek. I’m going to […]