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Tsakonian, n. and a.|tsəˈkəʊnɪən|
Also -c-, Tz-.
[f. Tsakon, a region in the eastern Peloponnese, Greece + -ian.]
(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.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 102/2 Certain peculiar dialects, such as the Tzakonian in the south-eastern Morea. 1925P. Radin tr. Vendryès's Language ii. 46 For the present Tsaconian still seems to use it [sc. digamma]. 1933C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Gk. & Lat. 20 The present Tsaconian dialect, spoken in a small portion of Laconia,..is in part the offspring of ancient Laconian. 1939A. J. 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. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. 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. |