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William Mata

What are endangered languages and how can they be saved? Cambridge academic bids to save ancient Greek dialect

Linguists fear that the ancient Greek dialect Romeyka, which has only a few thousand speakers, could die out — severing a tie with the ancient world. 

Romeyka is spoken in northern Turkey but has more in common with languages used to write the Bible than the modern variety. 

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