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Abstract

Patmos belongs to the insular group of the Dodecanese and is classified accordingly in typologies of Μ G dialects. Υet, according to the literature, the dialect of Patmos differs from the dialects of the rest of the islands of the group significantly, while it has close affinities with the dialects of Crete. This paper is based οη material from recent fieldwork and its aims are threefold: first, to provide a description of the local dialect of Patmos by listing its main characteristics, second, to examine these characteristics within the framework of Greek dialect classification, and finally, to show the dialect change and standardization in process within the span of the last fifty years, by comparing the outcomes of recent with those of precious empirical work, and, thus, showing which elements have remained stable and which ones have been replaced by standard elements.