Manolis speaking Tsakonian

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Tsakonian is a modern Greek language, spoken in the eponymous Tsakonia region of the Peloponnese Peninsula. It is the only living descendent of old Doric, the language once spoken by the people of Ancient Sparta. Though the Tsakonian-speaking community is small, numbering no more than a couple hundred speakers, the language has three distinct dialects, 'Northern', 'Southern' and 'Propontis'. Read more on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1Yv8JbG.

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