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The Maniots or Maniates (Greek: Μανιάτες) are an ethnic Greek subgroup that traditionally inhabit the Mani Peninsula; located in western Laconia and eastern...

highly archaic feature shared by Tsakonian, the Maniot dialect, and the Old Athenian enclave dialects, is the divergent treatment of historical /y/ (<υ>)...

Cape Matapan (Greek: Κάβο Ματαπάς, Maniot dialect: Ματαπά), also called Cape Tainaron or Taenarum (Greek: Ακρωτήριον Ταίναρον), or Cape Tenaro, is situated...

pronounced Ítilo), known as "Βίτσουλο", pronounced Vitsoulo, in the native Maniot dialect, is a village and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece...

the Maniots have been regarded by their neighbors and their enemies as fearless warriors who practice blood feuds, known in the Maniot dialect of Greek...

Argolic Gulf. Some early commentators seem to have confused the speech of Maniot dialect speakers with true Tsakonian, demonstrating the flexible nature of the...

Greek professor Anagnostopoulos, this dialect, like other conservative forms of modern Greek, such as the Maniot dialect, was spoken by populations that lived...

Tzanetos or Tzannis, as the name Ioannis (Ιωάννης, John) is pronounced in Maniot dialect. Tzanetos was the father of Pierros (Πιέρρος, Peter) and Tzortzis (Τζωρτζής...

Americas. The total speakers are about 1.20 million people. The Maniot Greek dialect (Μανιάτικη διάλεκτος) of the local area of Mani. Pontic Greek (Ποντιακή...

into groups that include: Old Athenian-Maniot: Megara, Aegina, Athens, Cyme (Old Athenian) and Mani Peninsula (Maniot) Ionian-Peloponnesian: Peloponnese (except...

διάλεκτος, romanized: Ellinoafstralianí diálektos) is an Australian-based dialect of Greek that is spoken by the Greek diaspora of Australia, including Greek...

combination of both. A long-standing debate over the origin of the Griko dialect has produced two main theories about the origins of Griko. According to...

Greek (extinct) Old Demotic Peloponnese Greek (extinct) Maniot (in Mani Peninsula) (archaic dialect) Cargèse Greek (in western Corsica coast, to the north...

be attributed to either internal dialectal borrowings or to borrowings from other Hellenic languages such as Maniot Greek or Standard Modern Greek. Ω...

1912. The Sfakian dialect is similar to other Cretan dialects, and yet it is also quite different. Like many other Cretan dialects, /k/, /ɡ/, /x/, and...

that moved to Italy came from the Mani region of the Peloponnese. The Maniots were known for their proud military traditions and for their bloody vendettas...

of Ionian with Attic, the dialect of Athens, began the process that resulted in the creation of the first common Greek dialect, which became a lingua franca...

being Turcophone. The dialect spoken by the Tsalka Urums is similar to that of the Meskhetian-Ahiska Turks, an Eastern Anatolian dialect of Turkish, which...

the dialect and narrations of the Sarakatsani, is arguably the most influential. He found no traces of foreign elements in the Sarakatsani dialect and...

Hellenism Languages and dialects Greek Calabrian Greek Cappadocian Greek Cretan Greek Griko Cypriot Greek Himariote Greek Maniot Greek Mariupol Greek Constantinopolitan...