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On average, Cypriots speak 1.2 foreign languages. [23]: 6 According to the Eurobarometer, 76% of people of Cyprus can speak English, 12% can speak French and 5% can speak German. [24] Foreign language lessons become compulsory at the age of 9 (2008). [23]: 11
Cypriot Greek had been historically used by some members of the Turkish Cypriot community, especially after the end of Ottoman control and consequent British administration of the island. In 1960, it was reported that 38% of the Turkish Cypriots were able to speak Greek along with Cypriot Turkish.
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The everyday language of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek, a dialect of Modern Greek. It shares certain characteristics with varieties of Crete, the Dodecanese and Chios, as well as those of Asia Minor. Greek Cypriots are generally educated in Standard Modern Greek, though they tend to speak it with an accent and preserve some Greek Cypriot grammar.
Armenian is recognised as a minority language in Cyprus. Cyprus has two official languages, Greek and Turkish. [225] Armenian and Cypriot Maronite Arabic are recognised as minority languages. [226] [227] Although without official status, English is widely spoken and features widely on road signs and in public notices and advertisements. [228]
Of these, a significant number are immigrants from Turkey who do not speak the Cypriot variety of Turkish. Cypriot Turkish is not used officially in the north, where modern standard Turkish became the de facto official language of schools, government, and the media.
Cypriot Arabic (Arabic: العربية القبرصية), also known as Cypriot Maronite Arabic or Sanna, [3] is a moribund variety of Arabic spoken by the Maronite community of Cyprus. Formerly speakers were mostly situated in Kormakitis , but following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the majority relocated to the south and dispersed ...
Eteocypriot is an extinct non-Indo-European language that was spoken in Cyprus by a non-Hellenic population during the Iron Age.The name means "true" or "original Cypriot" parallel to Eteocretan, both of which names are used by modern scholars to mean the non-Greek languages of those places. [2]