Just a little nit-picking re Grzegorz' excellent lecture on
language relationship:
--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Grzegorz Jagodzinski"
<grzegorj2000@...> wrote:
"Once again, none of modern Greek dialects is a descendant of a
non-Attic dialect of ancient Greek. They all continues the Hellenic
koine (and perhaps even the second, Byzantine koine) and not single
dialects, however those ancient dialects have left their traces in
modern Greek."
Tsakonian is considered a descendant of a Doric dialect. It's
down to about 300 speakers, so let's recognize it while it's still here!
Dan Milton