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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
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> What of Apulian Greek ('Griko', 15,000 speakers in 1994) and Calabria
> Greek (5,000 speakers, tally not dated)? Are they Doric or Attic?
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I find a rather extensive discussion of the modern (and near-modern)
Greek dialects (a suprising number of them)
at:
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/thesis/thesis9.pdf
But the brief answer it gives to your question is
"There is enduring controversy on the extent to which Italiot
preserves features of Doric; the likeliest interpretation is that it
is descended from a Doric-coloured regional variant of Koine."
Dan