[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: October 24, 2012

George Baloglou gbaloglou at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 09:43:18 PDT 2012


The speaker addressing the Cappadocians in one of their dialects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpCwyWnGrE [7:15 - 9:15]


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dimitri H. Gondicas
<gondicas at princeton.edu> wrote:
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> PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
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> Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
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> Lecture
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> The Hellenization of Asia Minor and the
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> Survival of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)
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> Mark Janse
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> Ghent University
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> Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar
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> Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language formerly
> spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey). After the population exchange between
> Greece and Turkey in the 1920s, Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate
> to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in
> Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Modern
> Demotic Greek and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1960s
> (Ethnologue, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent
> University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered
> Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who still speak their native
> language fluently. This lecture sketches the history of the Hellenization
> and subsequent Turkicization of Asia Minor which led to the gradual decline
> and ultimately to the apparent death of Cappadocian in Greece after the
> population exchange. It includes the fascinating story of the search for the
> last of the Cappadocian speakers and of the remarkable resurrection of the
> language at the beginning of the twenty first century, when almost half of
> the world’s 6,000 languages are threatened with immediate extinction. The
> lecture will be accompanied by audio and video recordings.
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> Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient and Asia Minor Greek at
> Ghent University, where he studied Classics, Biblical Hebrew and
> Linguistics. Janse has been editor of UNESCO's Linguistic Bibliography
> (1982-2004) and Professor of Linguistics and Classics and Head of the
> Department of Arts and Humanities at Roosevelt Academy, one of two
> international university colleges of Utrecht University (2004-2008). He is a
> former visiting fellow of the University of Amsterdam (2002-2004) and All
> Souls College (Oxford, 2007), and a fellow of the Onassis Foundation
> (Athens, 2007 & 2012). He is currently a Senior Visiting Scholar of the
> Onassis Foundation (USA), lecturing at Harvard, the University of Arizona,
> Stanford and Princeton. Janse's main fields of research are Ancient,
> Biblical and Asia Minor Greek as well as language contact and language death
> in antiquity and the modern world, on which he has published numerous books
> and articles.
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> Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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> 4:30 p.m.
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> Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
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