Speakers are bilingual in Greek, which is used for education and religion. Bible portions 1952-1959. Indo-European , Greek, Doric. Derived from the Doric dialect spoken in Lakonia by ancient Spartans. There were monolingual speakers in 1927.
Children attend Greek schools, including kindergarten, in winter.
Thrace and Aegean regions. Altaic , Turkic, Southern, Turkish. The number of Turks in Greece remains fairly constant, because growth is offset by a steady flow of emigration to Turkey. Bible portions 1782-1985. Net Part of the Ethnologue , 13th Edition, Barbara F. Grimes, Editor.