Romaian Greek

Romaian Greek
ρωμαικη ελληνική ρωμαικά
Pronunciation	[romaiˈci elːiniˈci] [romaiˈka]
Native to	Romaia
Native speakers	Native: 71 million (2011) L2: 5.1 million Total: 76 million
Language family	Indo-European Greek Koine Greek Romaian Greek
Early forms	Ancient Greek Koine Greek Apollonian Constantinoupolitan
Writing system	Greek alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguasphere	56-AAA-ahg

Romaian Greek (ρωμαική ελληνική el or ρωμαικά el) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority of the Romaian populace and Romaian diaspora. It is considered a divergent dialect as it differs from Standard Modern Greek in various aspects of its lexicon, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and even pragmatics, not only for historical reasons, but also because of different settlement patterns, and extensive contact with typologically distinct languages.