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{{about|the modern languages|the ancient [[Pre-Indo-European languages|Pre-Indo-European]] language|Eteocypriot language}}
{{Languages of
| country    = Cyprus
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| caption    =Sign in the [[Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia]] in English, Greek, and Turkish.
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* [[Greek language|Greek]]
* [[Turkish language|Turkish]]}}
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* [[Cypriot Greek]]
* [[Cypriot Turkish]] }}
| indigenous =
| minority   = {{plainlist|
* [[Armenian language|Armenian]] (recognised)
* [[Cypriot Arabic]] (recognised)
* ''[[Kurbetcha]]'' (unrecognised) }}
| immigrant  =
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* [[English language|English]] (76%)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf |title=SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages |publisher=ec.europa.eu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106183351/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf |archive-date=2016-01-06 }}</ref>
* [[French language|French]] (7%)
* [[German language|German]] (5%)
}}
| sign       = {{plainlist|
* [[Greek Sign Language]] (south)
* [[Turkish Sign Language]] (north)
* [[Cypriot Sign Language]] }}
| keyboard   = [[Keyboard_layout#Greek|Greek keyboard]]
| keyboard image = [[File:KB Greek.svg|200px]]
}}

The [[official language]]s of the [[Republic of Cyprus]] are [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Turkish language|Turkish]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus|year=1960|url=http://www.presidency.gov.cy/presidency/presidency.nsf/all/1003AEDD83EED9C7C225756F0023C6AD/$file/CY_Constitution.pdf|access-date=2013-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001544/http://www.presidency.gov.cy/presidency/presidency.nsf/all/1003AEDD83EED9C7C225756F0023C6AD/$file/CY_Constitution.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|art. 3, § 1}} The everyday spoken language ([[vernacular]]) of [[Greek Cypriots]] is [[Cypriot Greek]], and that of [[Turkish Cypriots]] is [[Cypriot Turkish]]. For official purposes, the [[standard language]]s ([[Standard Modern Greek]] and Standard Turkish) are used. 

According to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe, Armenian was recognised as a minority language of Cyprus as of 1 December 2002.

Three "religious groups" are recognised by the constitution; two have their own language: [[Armenian language|Armenian]] (the language of [[Armenians in Cyprus|Armenian Cypriots]]) and [[Cypriot Arabic]] (the language of [[Maronites in Cyprus|Maronite Cypriots]]). Sometimes ''[[Kurbetcha]]'', the language of the ''Kurbet'', the Cypriot Roma, is included alongside the other two in literature, but it is not officially recognised in any capacity.<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011" />

The 2011 census of the Republic recorded 679,883 native speakers of Greek, 34,814 of English, 24,270 of Romanian, 20,984 of Russian and 18,388 of Bulgarian of a total of 840,407. Following the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus|1974 Turkish invasion]], Cyprus was effectively divided into two linguistically near-homogeneous areas: the Turkish-speaking north and the Greek-speaking south;<ref name="Euromosaic" />{{rp|2.2}} only 1,405 speakers of Turkish reside in territory controlled by the Republic.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite book |date=June 2013 |chapter=Population enumerated by age, sex, language spoken and district (1.10.2011) (sheet D1A) |title=Population – Country of Birth, Citizenship Category, Country of Citizenship, Language, 2011 |publisher=CYstat |url=http://www.mof.gov.cy/mof/cystat/statistics.nsf/All/8B96E149FE049F49C2257AD90055559F/$file/POP_CEN_11-POP_FOREIGN_LANG-EN-140613.xls?OpenElement}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
The languages of Cyprus have historically exerted influence on one another; Cypriot Greek and Cypriot Turkish [[loanword|borrowed]] heavily from each other, and Cypriot Greek has helped shape Cypriot Arabic's phonology.<ref>{{cite conference|title=Greek in Turkish Cypriot Literature|last1=Gökçeoğlu|first=Mustafa|last2=Pehlivan|first2=Ahmet|year=2006|pages=83–92|book-title=Intercultural Aspects in and Around Turkic Literatures; Proceedings of the international conference held on October 11–12th, 2003 in Nicosia|editor-last=Kappler|editor-first=Matthias|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=9783447052856|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Km2NRLazqDYC}}</ref>{{rp|84}}<ref name="Borg 1997" />{{rp|223}}

==Cypriot Greek==
{{Main|Cypriot Greek}}
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Greek was originally brought to Cyprus by Greek settlers in the 12th–11th century BCE.<ref name="Euromosaic" />{{rp|2.1}} The earliest known Cypriot Greek inscription dates to c. 1000 BC.<ref>[https://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/BAR24-16-Steele.pdf Steele Philippa, "The mystery of ancient Cypriot clay balls", British Academy Review, 24, 2014]</ref> The contemporary [[Cypriot Greek]] (CG)—the mother tongue of [[Greek Cypriots]]—evolved from later [[Byzantine Greek|Byzantine Koine]], under the influence of the languages of the many colonisers of the island. CG differs markedly from [[Standard Modern Greek]] (SMG),<ref name="Joseph Tserdanelis 2003">{{cite book|last1=Joseph|first1=Brian D.|last2=Tserdanelis|first2=Georgios|chapter=Modern Greek|title=Variationstypologie. Ein sprachtypologisches Handbuch zu den europäischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart / Variation Typology. A Typological Handbook of European Languages|editor-last=Roelcke|editor-first=Thorsten|year=2003|pages=823–836|publisher=Walter de Gruyter}}</ref> particularly in its [[phonology]], [[morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] and vocabulary, and CG may be difficult for speakers of other varieties of Greek to understand<ref name="Ammon et al. 2006" />{{rp|1886}} or may even be [[mutual intelligibility|unintelligible]] to some.<ref name="Arvaniti 2006" />{{rp|26}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Terkourafi|first=Marina|title=Perceptions of difference in the Greek sphere: The case of Cyprus|year=2007|journal=Journal of Greek Linguistics|volume=8|issue=1|pages=60–96|doi=10.1075/jgl.8.06ter|doi-access=free}}</ref>{{rp|61}} CG has a literary tradition that flourished before the [[Ottoman Cyprus|Ottoman conquest of 1571]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Horrocks|first=Geoffrey C.|year=2010|title=Greek: a history of the language and its speakers|edition=2nd|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=9781444318920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwHPKIUXKGsC}}</ref>{{rp|392}}

SMG has been the language of instruction in Greek Cypriot education since the late 19th century (then [[Katharevousa]]) and is the language used in Greek-language media in the country (though in a recognisably Cypriot form).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Arvaniti|first=Amalia|year=2010|journal=Mediterranean Language Review|volume=17|pages=15–45|title=Linguistic practices in Cyprus and the emergence of Cypriot Standard Greek|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/ell/staff/amalia-arvaniti/docs/Linguistic%20%20practices%20in%20Cyprus%20and%20the%20%20emergence%20of%20Cypriot%20Standard%20Greek.pdf}}</ref> Indeed, Greek Cypriot society is [[diglossia|diglossic]], with SMG the high (taught) and CG the low variety (naturally acquired), itself a [[dialect continuum]] that has been long undergoing [[dialect levelling|levelling]] and [[koiné language|koinénisation]]. SMG exerts a continuing influence on CG, and CG speakers [[code-mixing|code-mix]] and [[code-switch]] between the two varieties in formal settings. Greek Cypriots' tendency to "downplay the differences between the two varieties"<ref name="Arvaniti 2006">{{cite journal|last=Arvaniti|first=Amalia|year=2006|title=Erasure as a means of maintaining diglossia in Cyprus|journal=San Diego Linguistic Papers|issue=2|publisher=Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q90b3fm}}</ref>{{rp|35}} has been thought to help preserve diglossia in circumstances that would have otherwise led to the demise of the low variety (CG).<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011" />{{rp|534–535}}<ref name="Ammon et al. 2006" />{{rp|1887}}

Many [[Turkish Cypriots]] have traditionally (prior to [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus|1974]]) been fluent in CG, meaning CG served as the "[[vernacular]] [[lingua franca]]" of the island.<ref name="Ammon et al. 2006">{{cite book|editor1-last=Ammon|editor1-first=Ulrich|editor2-last=Dittmar|editor2-first=Norbert|editor3-last=Mattheier|editor3-first=Klaus J.|editor4-last=Trudgill|editor4-first=Peter|chapter=Greece and Cyprus|pages=1881–1889|title=Sociolinguistics: an international handbook of the science of language and society / Soziolinguistik: ein internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft|year=2006|edition=2nd|series=Handbooks of linguistics and communication science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft|volume=3|location=Berlin|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110184181|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMZm0w0k1c4C}}</ref>{{rp|1886}} Some Turkish Cypriots were uni-lingual in Greek.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Beckingham |first=C.F. |year=1957 |title=The Turks of Cyprus |journal=The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=166 |doi=10.2307/2844102 |jstor=2844102 |quote=In Cyprus religious and linguistic divisions do not quite coincide. While many Turks habitually speak Turkish there are 'Turkish', that is, Muslim villages in which the normal language is Greek; among them are Lapithiou (P i), Platanisso (F i), Ayios Simeon (F i) and Galinoporni (F i). This fact has not yet been adequately investigated. With the growth of national feeling and the spread of education the phenomenon is becoming not only rarer but harder to detect. In a Muslim village the school teacher will be a Turk and will teach the children Turkish. They already think of themselves as Turks, and having once learnt the language, will sometimes use it in talking to a visitor in preference to Greek, merely as a matter of national pride. On the other hand many Turks, whose mother tongue is Turkish, learn Greek because they find it useful to understand the language of the majority, though it is much less common for them to write it correctly}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r8wGkxXeZuUC&q=Greek-speaking+Muslims Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, Peter Lang, 2006, p. 64]</ref><ref>[https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19366/7/Guelle_Vasif_Ozan.pdf Ozan Gülle (2014), "Structural Convergence in Cyprus", Inauguraldussertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, p. 149]: "it is historically well documented that Turkish Cypriots showed large differences in their frequency of communication in Cypriot Greek [...]: On one end of the spectrum are Turkish Cypriots who were probably monolingual Cypriot Greek speakers or had only little competency in Turkish, ..."</ref>

==Cypriot Turkish==
{{Main|Cypriot Turkish}}
[[File:Pyla plaatsnaambord.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Road sign outside [[Pyla]], Cyprus in Greek (in capital letters, top), Turkish (middle) and English (bottom)]]
Emanating from [[Anatolia]] and evolved for four centuries, Cypriot Turkish is the [[vernacular]] spoken by Cypriots with [[Ottoman Turks|Ottoman]] ancestry, as well as by Cypriots who converted to [[Islam]] during Ottoman rule.<ref> Jennings, Ronald (1993), Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640, New York University Press {{ISBN|0-814-74181-9}}.</ref> 

Cypriot Turkish consists of a blend of [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] and the [[Yörük]] dialect that is spoken in the [[Taurus Mountains]] of southern [[Turkey]]. In addition it has absorbed influences from [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Italian language|Italian]] and [[English language|English]]. Cypriot Turkish is mutually intelligible with [[Turkish language|Standard Turkish]].

==Minority languages==
Two [[minority language]]s are covered by the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]] in Cyprus, [[Armenian language|Armenian]] and [[Cypriot Arabic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Implementation of the Charter in Cyprus |work=Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages |publisher=Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research |access-date=26 June 2013 |url=http://languagecharter.eokik.hu/sites/StatesParties/Cyprus.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207055025/http://languagecharter.eokik.hu/sites/StatesParties/Cyprus.htm |archive-date= 7 February 2014 }}</ref>

===Armenian===
[[File:Armenian-English-Greek trilingual sign in Nicosia.jpg|thumb|Sign in Armenian, English and Greek at the [[Holy Mother of God Cathedral, Nicosia]]]]
[[Armenians]] have inhabited Cyprus since the sixth century AD, but about 9,000 more arrived from Turkey in the early 20th century to escape the [[Armenian genocide]]. Of those, most moved on to other countries. Today, [[Western Armenian]] is taught in Armenian schools (''Nareg'') and is the first language of about 3,000 people of [[Armenians in Cyprus|Armenian descent]] in the Republic. Armenian Cypriots are often bilingual in Greek and Armenian.<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011">{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/14664208.2011.629113|last1=Hadjioannou|first1=Xenia|last2=Tsiplakou|first2=Stavroula|last3=Kappler|first3=Matthias|year=2011|title=Language policy and language planning in Cyprus|journal=Current Issues in Language Planning|volume=12|issue=4|pages=503–569|publisher=Routledge|hdl=10278/29371|s2cid=143966308|hdl-access=free}}</ref>{{rp|507–509}} In 2014, it was reported that there are 668 Armenian first-language speakers in Republic of Cyprus-controlled areas (of a total 1,831 Armenian Cypriots).<ref name="CoE 2014" />{{rp|3}}

===Cypriot Arabic===
{{Main|Cypriot Arabic}}
It is not entirely clear when Arabic first made its way to Cyprus, but Arabic speakers are known to have emigrated from the Levant in the late 12th century AD.<ref name="Borg 1997" />{{rp|220}} Today, Cypriot Arabic (CA) is moribund with efforts being made to [[language revitalization|revitalise]] it. It is spoken by an estimated 900 [[Maronites in Cyprus|Cypriot Maronites]], all over the age of 30. [[Kormakitis]] was a long-time stronghold of the language, but most Maronites relocated to the south and spread after 1974, fuelling its—now very likely—[[language death|death]].<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011" />{{rp|507}} CA speakers are bilingual in Greek and CA, and CA, having long existed cut off from other varieties of Arabic, has been heavily influenced by Cypriot Greek, with respect to its [[syntax]], vocabulary and, particularly, phonology: it has lost all [[emphatic consonant]]s and [[stop consonant|stop]] [[consonant voicing and devoicing|voicing]] opposition. CA has traits in common with some [[North Mesopotamian Arabic|north Syrian and Mesopotamian dialects]] and sedentary vernaculars spoken on the Levantine coast.<ref name="Borg 1997">{{cite book|first=Alexander|last=Borg|chapter=Cypriot Arabic Phonology|editor-last=Kaye|editor-first=Alan S.|title=Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus)|volume=1|pages=219–244|publication-place=Winona Lake, Indiana|publisher=Eisenbrauns|year=1997|isbn=1-57506-017-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6jmziooEk0C}}</ref>{{rp|220–222}} Cypriot Arabic has not so far been [[codification (linguistics)|codified]], though there are plans to do so.<ref>{{cite report |author=Office of the Law Commissioner|publisher=Council of Europe|year=2011|title=European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Third periodical report by the Republic of Cyprus|url=http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/report/PeriodicalReports/CyprusPR3_en.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|3}} In 2014, it was reported that, in the 2011 census, of all 3,656 Maronite Cypriots in Republic of Cyprus-controlled areas "none declared [Cypriot Arabic] to be their first language".<ref name="CoE 2014">{{cite report |author=Council of Europe|date=2014-01-16|title=European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Fourth periodical presented to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in accordance with Article 15 of the Charter. CYPRUS|url=http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/Report/PeriodicalReports/CyprusPR4_en.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|4}}

===''Kurbetcha''===
There is an unknown number of [[Romani people|Roma]], speakers of ''[[Kurbetcha]]'' (or ''Gurbetcha''), a [[creole language|creole]] with vocabulary that is predominantly [[Romani language|Romani]] and Cypriot Turkish grammar, residing in Northern Cyprus. ''Kurbetcha'' is not protected by the Charter and has been little studied.<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011" />{{rp|508–509,536–537,549}}

==Foreign languages==
Proficiency in English is high (higher than in many other European countries), and Cypriots that receive education in English might code-switch between their native language and English. English features on road signs, public notices, and in advertisements, etc.<ref name="Ammon et al. 2006" />{{rp|1888}} English was the sole official language during British colonial rule and lingua franca (until 1960) and continued to be used (''[[de facto]]'') in courts of law until 1989 and in legislature until 1963.<ref name="Euromosaic">{{cite web|title=Cyprus|work=Euromosaic III|url=http://ec.europa.eu/languages/documents/cy_en.pdf|access-date=3 July 2013}}</ref>{{rp|4.4}} A reported 80.4% of residents of Cyprus perceive to have command of the English language as [[second language|L2]], a 10.8% of French, a 4.6% of German, a 2.8% of Russian, and a 2.0% of Spanish. On average, Cypriots speak 1.2 foreign languages.<ref name="eurostat 49/2010">{{cite journal|last1=Mejer|first1=Lene|last2=Boateng|first2=Sadiq Kwesi|last3=Turchetti|first3=Paolo|title=Population and social conditions|series=Statistics in Focus|issue=49/2010|year=2010|journal=[[eurostat]]|url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-10-049/EN/KS-SF-10-049-EN.PDF|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114041043/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-10-049/EN/KS-SF-10-049-EN.PDF|archive-date=2014-11-14}}</ref>{{rp|6}} According to the [[Eurobarometer]], 76% of people of Cyprus can speak English, 12% can speak French and 5% can speak German.<ref name="Eurobarometer">[http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf Europeans and their Languages] - Eurobarometer, 2006</ref>

Foreign language lessons become compulsory at the age of 9 (2008).<ref name="eurostat 49/2010" />{{rp|11}}

==Extinct languages==

===The Cypro-Minoan syllabary and earlier languages===
It is reckoned [[written language]] first made its appearance in Cyprus in the 16th century BCE with the yet-to-be-deciphered [[Cypro-Minoan syllabary]], an offshoot of [[Linear A]] "with some additional elements of hieroglyphic affiliation" that was the basis for the later [[Cypriot syllabary]].<ref name="Haarmann 1995">{{cite book|editor-last=Haarmann|editor-first=Harald|chapter=5. The Cretan legacy in the East: Writing systems in the multilingual society of ancient Cyprus|pages=109–116|year=1995|title=Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: an inquiry into cultural continuity in the Mediterranean World|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110146516|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXFW36L1hu4C}}</ref>{{rp|109–110}} The Cypro-Minoan syllabary may have been used to write more than one language.<ref>{{cite book|last=Steele|first=Philippa M.|year=2013|title=A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107042865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORSAAQAAQBAJ}}</ref>{{rp|60ff.}}

===Arcadocypriot and transitional Greek===
The [[Ancient Greek|ancient]] [[Arcadocypriot Greek|Arcadocypriot dialect]] of Greek was spoken by the [[Mycenaean Greeks]] to first settle in Cyprus in the 12th or 11th century BCE. It was eventually succeeded by [[Koine Greek]] in the fourth century BCE<ref name="Hadjioannou Tsiplakou Kappler 2011" />{{rp|509}} and later [[Byzantine Greek|Byzantine Koine]] evolved into Cypriot Greek.<ref name="Joseph Tserdanelis 2003" />

===Eteocypriot===
[[File:Idalion tablet.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Idalion Tablet|Idalion tablet]], inscribed in the [[Cypriot syllabary]], from the fifth century BCE. The tablet is named after Idalion or [[Idalium]], one of [[ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus|ten ancient Cypriot city-kingdoms]]]]
[[Eteocypriot]] was a [[pre-Indo-European language]], indigenous to the island, that competed with Greek following the latter's arrival and was ultimately supplanted by it by the third century BCE. It was written in the [[Cypriot syllabary]] that was adopted for Arcadocypriot; the same writing system was used to write both (unrelated) languages. For the time that the two languages co-existed, the peoples of Cyprus were bilingual (and bicultural).<ref name="Haarmann 1995" />{{rp|115–116}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://listenagain.mycyradio.eu/index.php?cat=Usus%20Norma%20Loquendi "Usus Norma Loquendi" – Cypriot Greek podcast about the languages of Cyprus]
* [http://northcyprusdiscovery.com/turkish-language-basics "North Cyprus Discovery" – Cypriot Turkish languages basics]

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