The Greek of Crete. The literary medium of the late-medieval Cretan Renaissance and the basis of a long oral and musical tradition.
- Approximate centre
- 35.34°, 25.14°
Dialect comparison
Cretan Greek vs Tsakonian
Compare two dialects of Greek side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.
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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