the Cypriot core vocabulary is different from the modern standard's, e.g. in addition to "I talk", instead of "I look", etc. A historically interesting example is the occasional use of archaic instead of for the interrogative "from where?" which makes its closest translation to the English "whence" which is also archaic in most of the English speaking world. Ethnologue reports that the lexical similarity between Cypriot Greek and Demotic Greek is in the range of 84–93%. Orthography There is no established orthography for Cypriot Greek. Efforts have been made to introduce diacritics to the Greek alphabet to represent palato-alveolar consonants found in Cypriot, but not in Standard Modern Greek, e.g. the combining caron , by the authors of the "Syntychies" lexicographic database at the University of Cyprus. When diacritics are not used, an epenthetic —often accompanied by the systematic substitution of the preceding consonant letter—may be used to the same effect (as in Polish), e.g. Standard Modern Greek → Cypriot Greek , Standard Modern Greek → Cypriot Greek . Geminates (and aspirates) are represented by two of the same letter, e.g. "today", though this may not be done in cases where the spelling would not coincide with Standard Modern Greek's, e.g. would still be spelt . In computer-mediated communication, Cypriot Greek, like Standard Modern Greek, is commonly written in the Latin script, and English spelling conventions may be adopted for shared sounds, e.g. for (and ). See also Languages of Cyprus Arcadocypriot Greek for the ancient Greek spoken on Cyprus Footnotes Explanatory notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Varieties of Modern Greek Greek, Cypriot Cyprus–Greece relations