Speaker of Tsakonian dialect in Leonidio, Arcadia, Greece

Audio of speaker of Tsakonian from Leonidio, main town in the Kynouria district of Arcadia, a province of southern Greece. Tsakonian is a language related to Modern Greek, descended from the ancient Doric dialect of Laconia (Sparta). Visit www.tsakoniandialect.info for more information. Audio includes Tsakonian transcription and translations into Greek and English.

[@Greksallad]

How very interesting. You can clearly tell it's Greek by the way it sounds but it's still so different. My Greek isn't exactly the best but I can barely understand anything in this video.

[@dr.coomer789]

Yeah they’re not mutually intelligible if thats what you mean

[@wankawanka3053]

​@@dr.coomer789 yeah but a greek will always be able to understand fsr more than anyone

[@Lara__]

Τέλεια βίντεο και πιστεύω στο μέλλον αυτά θα είναι θυσαυρός

[@jennytownsend6541]

I grew up with Homeric & Attic Greek, at home with evil mother &, later, in school. Knowing Greek & Latin, Italian & French helped me appreciate Russian & Portoguês. Japanese is totally different from Greek, German & Latin. I didn't know this Spartan language until I bumped into this gorgeous bundle yesterday. Thanks across the languages & dialects.

[@ham3263]

Portoguês?

[@barbarareinke2220]

HOW CAN I LEARN THIS LANGUAGE , I LOVE IT,

[@48MAthel]

Even a greek needs translation.

[@PotDylan]

Visit Tsakonia, and ask around in Tyros, if you don't stay there though you won't have anyone to speak it with..and even in Tsakonia it's mostly spoken by elders nowadays.

[@bryanmack7463]

Move to this part of Greece and stay there for a year

[@Mai-Gninwod]

no one's talking about the story but man oh man is it wild, so strange and cool. Ha! :)

[@valoeo]

I have a question, what is the plural genitive case in Tsakonian, how should it be expressed?

[@anglotsakonas6711]

The genitive plural isn't generally used in Tsakonian, apart from in fixed expressions like 'ριουφάλι δυ ναμερού' ='a kid (young goat) of 2 days' ie a kid which is 2 days old.

[@PaideiaOK]

:)

[@georgiosdoumas2446]

Πολύ απόπτωση του λ σε διάφορες λέξεις παρατηρώ! Πού χάθηκε το λ?

[@PotDylan]

@@georgiosdoumas2446 Δωρισμός... όπως και η απώλεια του ρ στο τέλος του "η μητήρ" --> "α ματήρ" --> "α μάτη"