Concept information
PREFERRED TERM
1275Tsakonian dialect
BROADER CONCEPT
SCOPE NOTE
- Tsakonian is a Modern Greek language which is both highly divergent from other spoken varieties of Modern Greek and, from a philological standpoint, is also linguistically classified separately from them. It is spoken in the Tsakonian region of the Peloponnese, Greece. Tsakonian descends from Doric, which was an Ancient Greek language on the Western branch of Hellenic languages, and it is its only living descendant[(along with the debatable Maniot dialect of Modern Greek). Although Tsakonian is treated as a dialect of Modern Standard Greek, some compendia treat it as a separate language, since Modern Standard Greek descends from Ionic and Attic which belong to the Eastern branch of the Hellenic languages, while Tsakonian (as a descendant of Doric) is the sole surviving member of the Western branch.
SOURCE
- Chambers & Trudgill 2011
- Κοντοσόπουλος 1994
CONTRIBUTOR
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
CREATOR
- Karasimos Athanasios (AA)
NOTATION
- 1275
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1275
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