Kurbet language

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. The Gurbetler of Ottoman Cyprus are of mixed ancestry. Muslim Dom people from Ottoman Syria settled there after Siege of Famagusta. 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
Native to	Cyprus / North Cyprus
Ethnicity	Gurbeti
Language family	Domari language–Cypriot Turkish creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Kurbetcha has been very little studied. A dissertation on its linguistics was done by Chryso Pelekani (2018).^[3] Children are not learning the language; it has been supplanted by Turkish in the north and Greek in the south.^[4]

See also

• Languages of Cyprus