Tsakonian language
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| Tsakonian | |
|---|---|
| τσακώνικα | |
| Native to | Greece |
| Region | Eastern Peloponnese, around Mount Parnon |
Native speakers | 300-1,500 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tsd |
| Glottolog | tsak1248 |
| ELP | Tsakonian |
| Linguasphere | 56-AAA-b |
Tsakonian (also Tsaconian, Tzakonian or Tsakonic; Tsakonian: τσακώνικα, α τσακώνικα γρούσσα; Greek: τσακώνικα) is a Hellenic language. It is spoken in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece and comes from Doric Greek. It is similar to Greek, but people speaking the two languages cannot talk to each other. Only a few hundred people are left who speak the language. Most of these are elderly people.[2][3][4][5][6]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Tsakonian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ↑ Linguist List
- ↑ Browning, Robert (1983). Medieval and modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124.
- ↑ Horrocks, Geoffrey (2010). Greek: A history of the language and its speakers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. p. 382.
- ↑ Joseph, Brian D.; Terdanelis, Georgios (2003). "Modern Greek". In Roelcke, Thorsten (ed.). Variation typology: a typological handbook of European languages. Berlin: de Gruyter. pp. 823–836.Joseph, Brian D. (2012). "Lexical diffusion and the regular transmission of language chang in its sociohistorical context". In Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo (eds.). Handbook of historical sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 411.
- ↑ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. New York: Routledge. s.v. "Tsakonian".