A Smyrneika Lexicon: The Language of Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey) Explained and Illustrated
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 235
ISBN: 9781463202514
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Price: £141.00
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A lexicon of Smyrneika, the Greek dialect that functioned as a lingua franca amongst the Levantine merchant communities of the Mediterranean. Rediscovering Turkey’s Ottoman past, including lost minority cultures… a study by three amateur lexicographers. The vocabulary is followed by a collection of proverbs and a series of dialogues illustrating the language and customs … “ Peter Mackridge www.oxford.academia.edu/PeterMackridge