Kurbetcha (or Gurbetcha) is a creole language with what appears to be predominantly Domari language vocabulary and Cypriot Turkish grammar, spoken by the Gurbeti of Cyprus and North Cyprus.[1] The Gurbetler have traditionally also spoken Cypriot Turkish. They Gurbetler of Ottoman Cyprus, are of mixed Ancestry. Muslim Dom people from Ottoman Syria, settled there after Siege of Famagusta. Some of them were settled at the end of the 17th century in Ottoman Balkan. 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 | |
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| Native to | Cyprus / North Cyprus |
| Ethnicity | Gurbetler/Kurbet/Gurbeti (Cypriot Muslim Gypsy) |
Language family | Domari language–Cypriot Turkish creole |
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| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
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]
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