Suleiman, the chickens and the miller – Macedonian Greek Collection

Konuk Serap tells a story about a young boy in Macedonian Greek, Vallahades (Valaades, Valahades) variety.

Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) ID-number: mace1251TRV0002a

Description:
The village of Mursallı since 1923 is home to Vallahades (patriyotlar), successors of the refugees from the village Gublar (Myrsini) in the Grevena/Grebene area in Western Macedonia (Greece). This short narrative in the Vallahades variety refers to a young boy who is punished several times for not doing his job properly. Every time he's hit for that, he runs away. Only when a "Romios" comes (Greek, Christian) and offers him to grow him up, he runs away again and prefers to go home.

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[rusirius]

I am a Greek from Ioannina, Epirus and I understand every single word! Is the way our grandmothers speak in the mountain villages!
My deepest respect to Mrs Konuk Serap!

[ΑθανάσιοςΚαλλιανιώτης]

Εκπληκτικό το κορίτσι. Σαν να ακούω τη γιαγιά μου, αυθεντικά χωριάτικα!

[ΑικατερίνηΣαβ]

I am Greek and i understand everything

[grecianplus]

Kind of a racist, anti-Greek story to be honest but interesting nonetheless

[thesecretlibrary]

What is wrong with the jaw and the arms and hands of that woman? Is this some kind of genetic condition? Anyway I wish I don't come across as rude.

Seriously this could be classified an actual dialect/language and not some kind of "just accent". I am really in awe that Macedonian Greek sounds like that. I thought before that "it was just an accent" because I heard people from Grevena and etc. talk and they don't talk like that. They just have a "slightly villagey accent but not strong as Thessalian-Larissean".

The woman here speaks a full-fledged dialect.