Tsakoniann.adj.
/tsəˈkəʊnɪən/ (Of or pertaining to) a modern Greek dialect spoken in an area of the south-eastern Peloponnese, containing ancient elements not derived from the koine.
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common dialect1604
Aeolic1606
Ionic1606
Ionic dialect1629
Athenian1638
Theban1820
Laconian1830
Doric1837
Rumelian1859
Pamphylian1880
Tsakonian1902
Pontic1910
Thessalian1910
koine1913
Messenian1928
Macedonian1933
Mycenaean1955
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek > of miscellaneous Greek dialects
Ionical1566
Macedonic1585
Pamphylian1871
Tsakonian1933
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 102/2 Certain peculiar dialects, such as the Tzakonian in the south-eastern Morea.
1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language ii. 46 For the present Tsaconian still seems to use it [sc. digamma].
1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 20 The present Tsaconian dialect, spoken in a small portion of Laconia,..is in part the offspring of ancient Laconian.
1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. VI. 71 This ‘Tsakonian’ patois is the only surviving form of spoken Greek that is not derived from the Attic κοινή.
1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 7 Tsakonian is the outlandish dialect of perhaps as many as 10,000 speakers in an area difficult of access along the forbidding coast of the Peloponnese between the Parnon Range and the Gulf of Argolis.
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