Dialect comparison

Pontic Greek vs Tsakonian

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

Pontic Greek

Romeyka · Pontiaka

The Greek variety historically spoken along the Pontic coast of the Black Sea, brought to mainland Greece by refugees of the 1923 population exchange. Its Anatolian-resident form (Romeyka) survives among Muslim communities near Trabzon.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
41.12°, 25.40°
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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