Greek dialects

Ofitika/ Ofitic Pontic (OP) is a Greek dialect of Asia Minor (Black Sea area). After the Greek-Turkish population exchange in the late 1920s and afterward, it is spoken by refugees of the Ophis area who settled in Nea Trapezounta (Pieria, North Greece) and a few other areas such as in Paranesti Dramas and in Thessaloniki. It is still spoken in the Of region in Turkey. In May 2003,
Vassilios Spyropoulos and I started a research project for the collection and analysis of spoken data. The linguistic material was gathered during several fieldwork trips in the area and part of it has been organized into a corpus. This research was sponsored by the cultural society “Alexandros Ypsilantis” (Nea Trapezounta, Pieria). In 2009, we were awarded the Meletes research grant by the J.S. Latsis Foundation (only 15 proposals out of the 713 applications were funded that year), which resulted in a monograph on Ofitika Pontic.

Revithiadou, A., V. Spyropoulos & Κ. Κakarikos. 2012. Η ταυτότητα της οφίτικης ποντιακής: Mια γλωσσολογική μελέτη των πηγών και των ομιλητών της. [The identity of Ofitika Pontic: A linguistic study of its sources and its speakers.] The Centre for Asia Minor Studies Bulletin, vol. 17, 217-275. Centre of Asia Minor Studies, Athens.

Revithiadou, A. & V. Spyropoulos. 2012. Οφίτικη: Πτυχές της Γραμματικής Δομής μιας Ποντιακής Διαλέκτου. [Οfitika Pontic: Aspects of the Grammatical Structure of a Pontic Dialect.] Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφών Κυριακίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη. [Kyriakidis Publishers, Thessaloniki.]

Ρεβυθιάδου, Α. & Β. Σπυρόπουλος. 2009. Οφίτικη Ποντιακή: Έρευνα Γλωσσικής Καταγραφής με Έμφαση στη Διαχρονία και Συγχρονία της Διαλέκτου. Αδημοσίευτη εργασία, Μελέτες 2009, Κοινωφελές Ίδρυμα Ι.Σ. Λάτση. [pdf, 1.1MB]

Symi Greek (SyG) is a Dodecanese variety that belongs to the south-eastern dialectal zone. It is spoken primarily in the island of Symi. It is characterized by some "archaic" features such as the postverbal position of clitics and the pronunciation of /z/ as [dz]. In August 2002, Dr. Vassilios Spyropoulos and I started a pilot project which aimed at the collection of raw speech
material from the dialect of Symi. Since then, we continue conducting research on SyG and collecting written and spoken material from the dialect. Our investigation primarily focuses on word order and second position clitics. The first fieldwork trip to Symi was sponsored by the Second Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national resources (25%).

Report [pdf & sound files, 1.02MB,WinRar]

Rhodian Muslim Greek (RMG) is a Greek variety spoken by the Muslim community of Rhodes. Dr. M. Georgalidou, H. Kaili and Dr. V. Spyropoulos conducted research on this Greek-based pidgin variety with emphasis on the structural interference from Turkish. They also explored the impact of social networks on the variation and change observed in the codes used by the
community. My contribution is on pinpointing those phonological structures of RMG that are clear instances of interference from Turkish.

Georgalidou, Μ., V. Spyropoulos, H. Kaili & Α. Revithiadou. To appear. Η γλωσσολογική και κοινωνιογλωσσολογική ταυτότητα μιας ροδιακής ποικιλίας της Ελληνικής. [The linguistic and sociolinguistic identity of a Rhodian variety of Greek.] In Πρακτικά του 6ου Παγκόσμιου Γλωσσολογικού Συνεδρίου του ΟΔΕΓ: Οι Διαλεκτικές Μορφές της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας από την Αρχαία Εποχή μέχρι Σήμερα [Proceedings of the 6th International Linguistics Conference of ODEG: The Dialectal Varieties of Greek from the Ancient Era till Today], Charalambakis, Ch. & D. Theofanopoulou–Κontou (eds.), 242–262. National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Athens.

Georgalidou, M. ,V. Spyropoulos, H. Kaili, A. Revithiadou & A. Celtec. Spoken varieties of Greek and Turkish in the Muslim bilingual community of Rhodes. Paper presented at the 42nd Linguistics Colloquium Language Diversity and Language Learning: New Paths to Literacyy, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, September 27–30, 2007. [pdf, 156KB]

Revithiadou, A. 2010. Greek and Turkish in contact: An excursus to two contact-induced varieties. Handout of a lecture presented at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, February 22, 2010. [Hd1, pdf, 697KB; Hd2, pdf, 242KB]