'' Cappadocian '' ( Καππαδοκικά ) is a Greek dialect of central Turkey of the same fate as Pontic ; its speakers settled in mainland Greece after the Greek genocide ( 1919 – 1921 ) and the later Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923 . Cappadocian Greek diverged from the other Byzantine Greek dialects earlier , beginning with the Turkish conquests of central Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th centuries , and so developed several radical features , such as the loss of the gender for nouns . Having been isolated from the crusader conquests ( Fourth Crusade ) and the later Venetian influence of the Greek coast , it retained the Ancient Greek terms for many words that were replaced with Romance ones in Demotic Greek . The poet Rumi , whose name means " Roman " , referring to his residence amongst the " Roman " Greek speakers of Cappadocia , wrote a few poems in Cappadocian Greek , one of the earliest attestations of the dialect
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