Languages of Cyprus
See language map.Cyprus. 836,000. National or official languages: Greek, Turkish. Republic of Cyprus, Kypriaki Dimokratia, Kibris Cumhuriyeti. Literacy rate: 95%–99%. Immigrant languages: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, North Levantine Spoken Arabic. Information mainly from A. Borg 1985. Deaf population: 49,259. Deaf institutions: 2. The number of individual languages listed for Cyprus is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
| Arabic, Cypriot Spoken | [acy]
1,300 (1995). Ethnic population: 6,000 in Cypriot Maronite ethnic group, 140 Maronites in Kormatiki, 80 to 100 in Limassol, the rest in the Maronite community in Nicosia. Northern Cyprus, Kormakiti, one of 4 Maronite villages in the mountains; Nicosia and Limassol refugee communities.
Alternate names: Cypriot Maronite Arabic, Maronite, Sanna.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Armenian | [hye]
2,740 in Cyprus (1987).
Alternate names: Armjanski, Ermenice, Haieren, Somkhuri.
Dialects: Western Armenian.
Classification: Indo-European, Armenian
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| Greek | [ell]
689,000 in Cyprus (2002 census). Nearly all in south Cyprus.
Dialects: Cypriot Greek.
Classification: Indo-European, Greek, Attic
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| Turkish | [tur]
177,000 in Cyprus (1995). Nearly all in north Cyprus.
Alternate names: Osmanli.
Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkish
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