Major project - Georgia

My Major project is about Cypriot dialect and the lack of an appropriate script to represent Cypriot identity. Although Cypriots use Roman Alphabet on writing, Roman Alphabet does not include all the speech sounds of Cypriot Greek dialect.

I have always been fascinated by exploring different ways of communication.
The motivating force behind the proposition of this project is my strong interest in the dialect that Cypriots use and the failure of the writing system to represent all the speech sounds included in the dialect.

For the purposes of a recent project (Unit 1), a survey regarding the different ways of communication in Cyprus was conducted. The research focused on the online communication within my online social network circles. An attempt was made to portray Cyprus’ distinctiveness in communication, as Cypriots’ communication system varies in formal and informal speaking and in formal and informal writing.

The plan for the major project is the conduction of a multi-layered research of Cyprus’ culture, by focusing on the lack of an appropriate mechanism in the writing system and to explore, if and how, this has an influence on the verbal communication. The aim is to investigate the language attitudes in Cyprus in order to review in what extend language is a factor in the construction of a
country’s identity.

As a step further to my research and as an answer to the existing problem there will be an attempt to suggest solutions that will give Cypriots a better script to express their language and their identity more appropriately.