Day: April 3, 2024

The Ancient Greek ‘Romeyka’ Dialect in Danger of Extinction in Turkey

Researchers have discovered features that make an endangered form of Ancient Greek, spoken by a few thousand people in isolated mountain villages in northern Turkey, more similar to the language of Homer than they are to modern Greek. As a result, the language has been dubbed a “living bridge” to antiquity. Romeyka’s exact speaker count […]