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Bullika
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: Cypriot Arabic |
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What can be done to save this dialect from extinction?
Quote: Cypriot Maronite Arabic
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Probably the most divergent of all Arabic dialects is Cypriot Maronite Arabic, still spoken by most of the 130 elderly Maronite Catholics in Kormakiti (Korucam) in Northern Cyprus, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Brought to the island by Maronites fleeing Lebanon at least 700 years ago, this unique variety of Arabic has been very heavily influenced by Greek in both phonology and vocabulary, while retaining certain unusually archaic features in other respects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_Maronite_Arabic
http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/people/cypmaronites/dialect.html
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:PaDuG4N5spkJ:hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/pdf/Borg.pdf+cypriot+arabic&hl=en
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Dhavlos
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| my maronite friend doesnt know any cypriot arabic... :( the younger people all speak greek becasue that is who they mix with...im sure that if they still lived in the villages...the language would still be 'alive' today. Maybe themaronites need to take a more active approach in teaching their kids cyp arabic to keep it alive, like we do in the diaspora of sending us to 'greek' school (i assume it is the same for Turkish Cypriots) |
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Bullika
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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Dhavlos wrote: my maronite friend doesnt know any cypriot arabic... :( the younger people all speak greek becasue that is who they mix with...im sure that if they still lived in the villages...the language would still be 'alive' today. Maybe themaronites need to take a more active approach in teaching their kids cyp arabic to keep it alive, like we do in the diaspora of sending us to 'greek' school (i assume it is the same for Turkish Cypriots)
i went to turkish school and the turks and kurds ganged up on me and made fun of the way i spoke so i head butted one them, his nose started bleeding and they asked my parents not to bring me back. |
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Cyprus rules!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| They didn't?? That's horrible! Most of the Kids at my Greek school were Greek Cypriot, so was the headmaster for many years..There were people from all over Greece and Cyprus, Even someone from Alexandria In Egypt!! That was cool...hehe |
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repulsewarrior
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Because Cyprus is a crossroad for all the world's religions, it is a special place, of extraordianry importance, toward any study of the Human Condition.
Maronites, and others would be better served if the Cypriot identity was one factor on which all citizens agreed, inclusive, accepting to the needs of people, as communities, and their desire for self-determination.
As such, with the opportunity, the Universities, only recently established, will collect and assemble this history, for our appreciation; how it spans all time, being multi-faceted, we hope it's self sustaining nature can be promoted. |
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