Tsakonian
E41609
Tsakonian is a highly divergent modern Greek dialect, often considered a separate language, descended from ancient Doric Greek and spoken by a small community in the eastern Peloponnese.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tsakonian canonical | 8 |
| Tsakonian language | 5 |
| Northern Tsakonian | 3 |
| Southern Tsakonian | 3 |
| Tsakonian Greek | 3 |
| Tsakonian dialect continuum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T285438 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Tsakonian Context triple: [Modern Greek, hasVariety, Tsakonian]
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A.
Cappadocian Greek
Cappadocian Greek is an endangered Greek dialect historically spoken in the Cappadocia region of central Anatolia, notable for its heavy influence from Turkish and preservation of archaic Greek features.
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B.
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek is an endangered Hellenic language traditionally spoken by Greek communities around the Black Sea region, particularly in what is now northeastern Turkey and the Caucasus.
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C.
Katharevousa
Katharevousa is a conservative, archaizing form of the Greek language that was used in official and literary contexts in Greece from the 19th to the late 20th century.
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D.
Palaic
Palaic is an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language once spoken in north-central Anatolia, known primarily from limited cuneiform texts.
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E.
Greek language
The Greek language is an ancient and continuously spoken Indo-European language of Greece and Cyprus that has profoundly influenced the vocabulary, literature, and scientific terminology of many other languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tsakonian Target entity description: Tsakonian is a highly divergent modern Greek dialect, often considered a separate language, descended from ancient Doric Greek and spoken by a small community in the eastern Peloponnese.
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A.
Cappadocian Greek
Cappadocian Greek is an endangered Greek dialect historically spoken in the Cappadocia region of central Anatolia, notable for its heavy influence from Turkish and preservation of archaic Greek features.
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B.
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek is an endangered Hellenic language traditionally spoken by Greek communities around the Black Sea region, particularly in what is now northeastern Turkey and the Caucasus.
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C.
Katharevousa
Katharevousa is a conservative, archaizing form of the Greek language that was used in official and literary contexts in Greece from the 19th to the late 20th century.
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D.
Palaic
Palaic is an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language once spoken in north-central Anatolia, known primarily from limited cuneiform texts.
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E.
Greek language
The Greek language is an ancient and continuously spoken Indo-European language of Greece and Cyprus that has profoundly influenced the vocabulary, literature, and scientific terminology of many other languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endangered language
ⓘ
language ⓘ modern Greek variety ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup | Tsakonians ⓘ |
| consideredByOthersAs | Greek dialect ⓘ |
| consideredBySomeAs | separate language ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Doric Greek
ⓘ
surface form:
Laconian Doric
|
| documentedBy | linguists ⓘ |
| endonym | τσακώνικα ⓘ |
| glottocode | tsak1248 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tsakonian
ⓘ
surface form:
Tsakonian Greek
Tsakonia ⓘ
surface form:
Tsakonika
|
| hasAncestor |
Ancient Greek
ⓘ
Doric Greek ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Tsakonian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Tsakonian
Propontis Tsakonian ⓘ Tsakonian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Tsakonian
|
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arvanitika
ⓘ
Modern Greek ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Modern Greek
Turkish ⓘ |
| hasLimitedUseIn | written form ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
loss of aspiration contrasts
ⓘ
palatalization of velars ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | ancient Laconia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tsd ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Hellenic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| languageShiftTo |
Modern Greek
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Modern Greek
|
| mutualIntelligibilityWith | Standard Modern Greek (low) ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few hundred ⓘ |
| primaryCountry | Greece ⓘ |
| regionType | mountainous coastal area ⓘ |
| retainsFeature |
Doric phonology
ⓘ
Doric vocabulary ⓘ distinct verb morphology ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arcadia
ⓘ
Greece ⓘ Laconia ⓘ Tsakonia ⓘ Peloponnese ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Peloponnese
|
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Greek language
ⓘ
Hellenic language ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| usedIn | oral communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Tsakonian Description of subject: Tsakonian is a highly divergent modern Greek dialect, often considered a separate language, descended from ancient Doric Greek and spoken by a small community in the eastern Peloponnese.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.