Cappadocian Greek

Cappadocian (SIL: CPG, ISO 639-2: ine, ISO 639-3: CPG ) is a dialect of the Greek language with strong Turkish influences, especially in vocabulary, partly in sentence structure, in the area of Cappadocia in Asia Minor was spoken.

During the forced resettlement in the 1920s, all speakers of Cappadocian language after Greece had to emigrate, where they quickly changed the standard Greek. Since the 1960s, the language was thought to be extinct, but in 2005 were found native in Greece. Further studies in this regard be made to the University of Patras and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.