Istanbul Greek dialect

Istanbul Greek dialect
Πολίτικη διάλεκτος Κωνσταντινουπολίτικη διάλεκτος
The Greek Orthodox church of Ayios Fokas in Ortaköy-Beşiktaş, Istanbul with a sign in Turkish and Greek.
Region	Istanbul, Athens
Ethnicity	Istanbul Greeks
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Greek Attic–Ionic Istanbul Greek dialect
Early forms	Proto-Greek Ancient Greek Koine Greek Medieval Greek
Writing system	Greek alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	cons1240  Constantinople Greek
IETF	el-u-sd-tr34

The Istanbul Greek dialect (Greek: Πολίτικη διάλεκτος or Κωνσταντινουπολίτικη διάλεκτος) is the endangered^[1] Greek dialect spoken by the millennia-old Greek community in Istanbul, which has now shrunk to a couple thousand individuals. It is differentiated from Standard Greek due to a number of internal divergent developments, preservation of characteristics of Ancient Greek that are absent from Standard Greek, and language contact, most notably with Turkish, French, Italian and Armenian.^[1] Various characteristics of Istanbul Greek are said to have parallels in Old Athenian Greek, as well as Tsakonian.

The idiom is spoken mainly in Istanbul, and among the Istanbul Greek emigre community in Athens.