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It's claimed that the Greek people can speak a bit Turkish...? |
Travel Info is it true? what do u think? Travel Tips You can not generalize your statement and I would explain thoroughly. Greek and Turkish are two different languages. The Greeks can not understand Turkish and vise versa. It is true though that the Greeks use some words that originate from Turkish because they lived for many years under the Turkish occupation. The same applies for the Turks but not that much. You see the Turkish goverment has some kind of insitution that creates new words to replace the words that come from foreing languages and more or less are imposed. In the north Greece there is a muslim minority of about 130,000 people. This minority speaks both Greek and Turkish. Actualy many people of the minority speak Turkish better than Greek. Moreover there are the displaced Greeks of Turkey. From 1950's to 1970's the Turkish deported or forced the Greeks who lived there to leave the country. About 500,000 Greeks that came to Greece from Turkey can speak Turkish but not that fluently anymore. They can understand and speak but with difficulty. My parents for example came from Istanbul to Greece in 1978 and they can speak Turkish but me for example I know only some words. It is impossible for me to understand Turksih. In the last decade Greece has received a lot of imigrants. Many Kurds that had to leave Turkey have come to Greece. So you have also some Kurds that speak all three languages Turkish, Greek and Kurdish. I think they are about 20,000 but i am not sure about the number In Turkey, on the other hand, some Turks can speak Greek but not very well. These cases are the Turks that worked for Greeks or Turks that leaved in Greek areas. Also in Turkey there are some old people (if they are still alive) that speak Greek. They mostly originate from Crete and moved to Turkey after the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations between the two countries at the end of WW1. Their kids and grandchildren do not speak Greek though. I hope I made that clear. As for Greeks learning Turkish now it is in some extent true. It is not a big trent but many people started doing business with Turkey and they believe that by speaking Turkish they can achieve more. Also they consider it as advantage and that it would be easier to make business. Source(s): Me Other Travel Tips well they were ruled once by turkish people, and their country does border turkey and there are turks living in greece who would be able to speak both languages and their neighbours would pick it up.......you get it u I think that the old people new some of the old Turkish language but Young gen ration they dont I know Greece fairly well, I even lived there and, you know, I can speak some Greek too. I was under the impression that when a foreigner tries to speak Greek in Athens the Greeks always replied in English. The last time I went there I found out they were all speaking Turkish. I asked why. "You megalos malakas!", someone said in Greek (!), "Turkish is the new fashion here. And the Turkish are speaking Greek in turn!" Of course, there are far more people in Turkey than in Greece (and some more turkeys as well), so now Greek managed to be spoken by a lot more people than usually did, whereas Turkish became a language spoken by only about 10 million people. Curious, ain't it? Well, we use some Turkish words but just a few. We wouldn't be able to communicate in Turkish I'm Greek |
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