"Linguist makes the island a little smaller for all
By Jean Christou
A LINGUISTICS professor in Turkey has identified 738 words of Turkish origin used in everyday language by Greek Cypriots.
According to the study by Ridvan Ozturk, 131 of the words describe items and tools, 61 describe different foods, 56 character descriptions, 34 professions and 22 plants, among other uses.
The words include kebab, bakkali, dolmas, sokaki and pastourmas, three well-known dishes in Cyprus.
In his study, Ozturk said it was natural that after living together for hundreds of years, that Greek and Turkish Cypriots would pick up words from each others’ languages. There were other words that originally came from Arabic and filtered into Turkish and then adopted by Greek Cypriots, he said."
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By Jean Christou
