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Subdialectal diversity in the Tsakonian-speaking area of Arcadia
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2000-4000

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"Tsakonian is supposed to be a critically endangered language because of its relatively small number of fluent speakers which are estimated to be 2000 to 4000 and because of the lack of a younger generation."

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Arcadia, Greece

Coordinates

37.262826, 22.683782; 37.264144, 22.649813; 37.291668, 22.651277; 37.167092, 22.858031

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Other languages used

Greek

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"The southern Tsakonian area speakers form quite a heterogeneous bilingual community. The percentage of population which doesn`t speak Tsakonian is high in the town of Leonidion and very low in the surrounding villages."

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

37.1712,22.7911

Location description

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Government support

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Speaker number data: (J. Werner 1981).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Greece;

Coordinates

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Location description

Kastanitsa, Sitena, Prastos, Leonidi, Pramatefti, Sapounakeika, Tyros, Melana towns, possibly Korakovunio; Peloponnesos east coast

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Kastanitsa, Sitena, Prastos, Leonidi, Pramatefti, Sapounakeika, Tyros, Melana towns, possibly Korakovunio; Peloponnesos east coast

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Greek

Domains of other languages

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

A couple hundred

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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"There are a couple hundred people with some fluency in Tsakonian at best, mainly in the Leonidio region but still a few in Kastanitsa as well."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Greece, eastern Peloponnese

Coordinates

37.165331, 22.858825; 37.263957, 22.649835; 37.291813, 22.651180

Location description

"Southern Tsakonian is still spoken in villages around Leonidio, but practically all speakers are elderly, while northern Tsakonian barely survives in the villages of Kastanitsa and Sitena."

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"Southern Tsakonian is still spoken in villages around Leonidio, but practically all speakers are elderly, while northern Tsakonian barely survives in the villages of Kastanitsa and Sitena."

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

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    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
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    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  5. Why Greek is one of The World’s Major Languages
  6. Subdialectal diversity in the Tsakonian-speaking area of Arcadia
    https://www.academia.edu/5743870/Subdialectal_diversity_in_the_Tsakonian-speaking_area_of_Arcadia