What is the degree of intelligibility between Standard Modern Greek and Cretan Greek?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

I’ve done the Swadesh list lexicostatistics: 89 of 100 core words, which is comparable to Russian and Ukrainian. (I get the same figure for Cypriot.) Mutually intelligible, but just. Much more now that the dialect is dying out.

I was exposed to the dialect 30 years ago when it wasn’t doing as badly; so I’m not necessarily the right person to ask; I’d be interested in others’ opinion.

Answered 2016-03-18
[Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-is-the-degree-of-intelligibility-between-Standard-Modern-Greek-and-Cretan-Greek/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

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