Aug 14, 2019 · Modern Greek dialects except for Tsakonian language hail from a common supra region, Attic Greek, spoken in late antiquity. Today, the Tsakonian dialect is spoken by 1,200 people in the Tsakonian regions of Peloponnese where it splits into Northern, Southern, and Propontis dialects. The Tsakonian dialect descends from the ancient Doric dialect.

Mar 22, 2022 · The mountainous village of Pera Melana in Greece’s southern Peloponnesian peninsula is predominantly where the rich cultural heritage of Tsakonian still flourishes today.. The Doric dialect called “Laconian” is what the language was called in ancient days, before it began to be called “Tsakonian” in the Middle Ages.

Slavic speakers are a linguistic minority population in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, who are mostly concentrated in certain parts of the peripheries of West and Central Macedonia, adjacent to the territory of the state of North Macedonia.The language called "Slavic" in the context of Greece is generally called "Macedonian" or "Macedonian Slavic" otherwise.

They traditionally speak Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek. Their ancestors were first recorded as settlers who came to what is today southern Greece in the late 13th and early 14th century. They were the dominant population element in parts of the Peloponnese, Attica and Boeotia until the 19th century.