This volume describes the dialect versions of Greek which survive in areas outside the territory of the Greek state: Pontic in the Black Sea regions of Turkey, the Greek dialects of southern Italy, the dialect of Marioupolis in the Ukraine, Sarakatsanika in Bulgaria, the Cretan dialect in parts of Syria and Lebanon.

Texts by GeorgesDrettas, Peter Mackridge, Olga Profili, Marianna Katsogiannou, Aikaterini Pappou-Zouravliova and others.