A small, isolated community near the Black Sea, in a remote part of Turkey, was found to speak a greek dialect which is considerably close all'estinta language of ancient Greece.
Linguists believe that this dialect, romeyka, have structures similar to the greek Hellenistic (or koine) than were observed in any existing language. Even the vocabulary of romeyka has some similarities with the ancient language.
Ioanna Sitaridou, professor of Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge, said: "The romeyka preserves an impressive number of grammatical features that [...] were completely lost in the other varieties of modern greek. "
This fact is considered to have emerged after significant changes, from the greek medieval (or Byzantine), spoken between the seventh and thirteenth century AD The romeyka would rather similar to the greek hellenistic, spoken from the fourth century BC and the fourth century AD at the height of Greek influence in Anatolia.
One possibility is that the speaker today romeyka directly descended from the ancient Greeks lived there thousands of years ago, but it is also plasubile whether you are descendants of indigenous peoples and immigrants encouraged or forced to talk the language of the ancient Greek colonists.
The community of just 5,000 people live in a group of villages in what was the ancient region of Pontus, near Trabzon, a Greek colony that Jason and the Argonauts were visited in their epic journey from Thessaly to retrieve the Fleece 'gold in the land of Colchis (modern Georgia).
Trabzon (wiki)
The villagers who speak romeyka, existing only in spoken form, show signs of cultural and geographical isolation. Rarely marry outside their community and play traditional music with his lyre, called in turkish or kemenje romeyka. "I only know a man who has married outside of his village - Says Sitaridou - The music is typical and should not be confused with any other. [There is only one community]. "
Today these people are Muslim, and that is why they have been allowed to stay in Turkey after the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, when two million Christians and Muslims were exchanged between Greece and Turkey. Repeated waves of migration, influence of the Turkish language and complete absence of romeyka from the 'public arena "are now put in the list of most endangered languages \u200b\u200bof the world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/jason-and-the-argot-land-where-greeks-ancient-language-survives-2174669.html
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