Tsakonian
Tsaconia; Tsakonia;
Indo-European; Greek; Doric
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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."
2013
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Arcadia, Greece
37.262826, 22.683782; 37.264144, 22.649813; 37.291668, 22.651277; 37.167092, 22.858031
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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."
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2010
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Speaker number data: (J. Werner 1981).
2009
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Greece;
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Kastanitsa, Sitena, Prastos, Leonidi, Pramatefti, Sapounakeika, Tyros, Melana towns, possibly Korakovunio; Peloponnesos east coast
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Kastanitsa, Sitena, Prastos, Leonidi, Pramatefti, Sapounakeika, Tyros, Melana towns, possibly Korakovunio; Peloponnesos east coast
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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."
2007
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Greece, eastern Peloponnese
37.165331, 22.858825; 37.263957, 22.649835; 37.291813, 22.651180
"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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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, 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
- Subdialectal diversity in the Tsakonian-speaking area of Arcadiahttps://www.academia.edu/5743870/Subdialectal_diversity_in_the_Tsakonian-speaking_area_of_Arcadia
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