Kurbet language

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Kurbetcha
Native to
North Cyprus
EthnicityGurbetler/Kurbet/Gurbeti (Cypriot Muslim Gypsy)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Kurbetcha (or Gurbetcha) is a

Muslim Dom people from Ottoman Syria settled there after Siege of Famagusta. The majority settled in the north after 1974. The language is not protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, unlike Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Armenian.[2]

Kurbetcha has been very little studied. A recent dissertation on its linguistics was done by Chryso Pelekani.[3] Children are not learning the language; it has been supplanted by Turkish in the north and Greek in the south.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Roma flee Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus; anti-Gypsyism breaks out in the South". European Roma Rights Centre.
  2. ^ European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (28 April 2020). "States Parties to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and their regional or minority languages (listed by language on p.6)".
  3. ^ Pelekani, Chryso (2018). The Gurbetties of Cyprus and their language Gurbetcha. University of Cyprus.
  4. S2CID 143966308
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