Dialect comparison

Cappadocian Greek vs Tsakonian

Compare two dialects of Greek side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Cappadocian Greek

The Greek of inner Anatolia, isolated for centuries before the 1923 population exchange brought its speakers to Greece. Heavily Turkic-influenced; once thought extinct but rediscovered in central Greece in the 2000s.

Approximate centre
39.36°, 21.92°
Tsakonian

Tsakonika

The only living descendant of ancient Doric Greek, spoken in a few villages of the Peloponnese around Leonidio. Critically endangered; structurally distinct from all other Greek varieties, which descend from Attic-Ionic.

Approximate centre
37.16°, 22.85°

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