Langenesis

Indo-European family

Cappadocian Greek

c. 1100 CE – today Living

Cappadocian Greek (c. 1100 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Hellenic → Ancient Greek → Koine Greek → Medieval Greek → Cappadocian Greek.

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ISO 639-3
cpg

Heavily Turkish-influenced Greek of central Anatolia. Thought extinct after 1923 until speakers were found in Greece in 2005; critically endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2,200 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Ancient Greek1,100 BCE – 300 BCE
  4. Koine Greek300 BCE – 600 CE
  5. Medieval Greek600 CE – 1500 CE
  6. Cappadocian Greekc. 1100 CE – today

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Medieval Greek.

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