Is Greek still spoken today?
Jillian Schneider
2025-05-13 12:25:42
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The precise number of speakers of Romeyka is hard to quantify. It has no written form, but has survived orally in the mountain villages around Trabzon, near the Black Sea coast. With its remaining speakers ageing, the dialect is now threatened with extinction. Modern Greek and Romeyka are not mutually intelligible. A high proportion of native speakers in the region are over 65, and fewer young people learn the language. There is a very significant diaspora which is separated by religion and national identity [from the communities in Turkey], but still shares so much. When speakers can speak their home languages they feel seen and thus they feel more connected to the rest of society. Conversion to Islam across Asia Minor was usually accompanied by a linguistic shift to Turkish, but communities in the valleys retained Romeyka.
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