Tsakonian language
Doric dialect of Greek language
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]
| 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 |
References
change- ↑ "Tsakonian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ↑ "Linguist List". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
- ↑ 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. ISBN 9781405134156.
- ↑ 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. ISBN 9783110160833.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".