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Kurbetcha (orGurbetcha) is acreole language with what appears to be predominantlyDomari language vocabulary andCypriot Turkish grammar, spoken by theGurbeti ofCyprus andNorth Cyprus.^[1] The Gurbetler have traditionally also spokenCypriot Turkish. The Gurbetler of Ottoman Cyprus are of mixed ancestry.MuslimDom people fromOttoman Syria settled there afterSiege of Famagusta. The majority settled in thenorth after1974. The language is not protected by theEuropean Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, unlikeCypriot Maronite Arabic andArmenian.^[2]

Kurbetcha has been very little studied. A dissertation on its linguistics was done by Chryso Pelekani (2018).^[3] Children are not learning the language; it has been supplanted by Turkish in the north and Greek in the south.^[4]

• Pelekani uses⟨ɨ̠⟩ because "The [+high], [-front], [-round] vowel/ɨ̠/ is mainly realised as a close central unrounded vowel[ɨ]."^[7]

• Languages of Cyprus

• Pelekani, Chryso (2018).The Gurbetties of Cyprus and their language Gurbetcha (Thesis). University of Cyprus.

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