caa a22 4500 388111607 CHVBK 20180307125354.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002510030000654X doi S002510030000654X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002510030000654X Arvaniti Amalia Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus, PO Box 20537, Nicosia, Cyprus e-mail: ainalia@ucy.ac.cy Cypriot Greek [Elektronische Daten] [Amalia Arvaniti] Cypriot Greek is the dialect of Modern Greek spoken on the island of Cyprus by approximately 650,000 people and also by the substantial immigrant communities of Cypriots in the UK, North America, Australia, South Africa and elsewhere. Due to lengthy isolation, Cypriot Greek is so distinct from Standard Greek as to be often unintelligible to speakers of the Standard. Greek Cypriot speakers, on the other hand, have considerably less difficulty understanding Greeks, since Standard Greek is the official language of Cyprus, and as such it is the medium of education and the language of the Cypriot media. However, in every day situations Cypriot Greek is the only variety used among Cypriots. Cypriot Greek is not homogeneous but exhibits considerable geographical variation (Newton 1972). The variety described here is that used by educated speakers, particularly the inhabitants of the capital, Nicosia. Although influenced by increasing contact with Standard Greek, Cypriot Greek retains most of its phonological and phonetic characteristics virtually intact. There is no established orthography for Cypriot Greek; however, certain, rather variable, conventions have emerged, based on Greek historical orthography but also including novel combinations of letters in order to represent sounds that do not exist in the Standard (e.g. σι for [∫]); a version of these conventions has been adopted here for the sample text. The transcription is based on the speech of an educated male speaker from Nicosia in his mid-thirties, who read the text twice at normal speed and in an informal manner, he also assisted in rendering the text from Standard to Cypriot Greek. Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1999 Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 29/2(1999-12), 173-178 0025-1003 29:2<173 1999 29 IPA https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510030000654X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510030000654X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Arvaniti Amalia Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus, PO Box 20537, Nicosia, Cyprus e-mail: ainalia@ucy.ac.cy NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 29/2(1999-12), 173-178 0025-1003 29:2<173 1999 29 IPA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge