Mi spiace se la questione è controversa, ma sono solo curioso. Non vengo da Cipro, Grecia o Turchia e non ho alcun legame con nessuno di questi posti, quindi non ho secondi fini… La Repubblica di Cipro ha due lingue ufficiali: greco e turco. Tuttavia, ho letto che nella parte meridionale dell’isola (esclusa Cipro Nord), solo lo 0,2% della popolazione parla turco ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages\_of\_Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Cyprus)) Quindi, quando diciamo che Cipro ha il turco come lingua ufficiale, parliamo della parte settentrionale? C’è autorità turca anche nella parte meridionale? Oppure il greco è ufficiale al sud mentre il turco è ufficiale al nord? E se così fosse, visto che al sud i parlanti del turco sono così pochi, il turco sarà ancora una lingua ufficiale? Oppure si prevede di riconoscere il greco come ufficiale solo nel sud?
https://old.reddit.com/r/cyprus/comments/1crfxej/turkish_language_status_in_cyprus/
di stifenahokinga
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> Therefore, when we say that Cyprus has Turkish as it official language, are we talking about the Northern part? Is Turkish official also in the southern part? Or is Greek official in the southern while Turkish is official in the north?
Republic of Cyprus, what you refer to as the south, legally claims a continuity to the 1960 Republic of Cyprus, and that’s why it has Turkish and Greek as its official languages (once it had English but it’s no more the case). The de facto polity in north also has its official language as Turkish.
That being said, the whole north and south situations are new inventions: majority of Turkish Cypriots were what you call south today, and there were hardly any places where any group was concentrated in a large region, even things getting altered a bit with the decades long inter-communal conflict.
>And if that is the case, being that the speakers of Turkish is so low in the south, is Turkish still going to be an official language? Or are there plans to only recognize Greek as official in the south?
Cyprus, officially and legally, bound to reunify. Albeit, there are no plans regarding that.