From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 41602
Date: 2005-10-25
>What of Apulian Greek ('Griko', 15,000 speakers in 1994) and Calabria
> 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!