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What is the name of the now-endangered language, sometimes called a dialect, spoken in the southern Peloponnese that preserves Doric elements and is unintelligible to other speakers?

Tsakonian, spoken in a few villages of Arcadia, is the only surviving descendant of the ancient Doric dialect, and is so divergent from standard Modern Greek that it is often classified as a separate Hellenic language.

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