Calabrian Greek
Variety of Italiot Greek spoken by the Griko people in Calabria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Calabrian Greek (endonym: Greko/ Γκραίκο; Italian: Grecanico[2]) is the variety of Italiot Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italiot Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. Both are remnants of the Ancient and Byzantine Greek colonization of the region.
Calabrian Greek | |
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Γκραίκο | |
Native to | Italy |
Region | Calabria |
Ethnicity | Greeks |
Native speakers | c. 2,000 (2010)[1] |
Latin | |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Italy
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | aspr1238 Aspromonte |
Linguasphere | 56-AAA-aib |
IETF | el-Latn-u-sd-it78 |
Location map of the Italiot-speaking areas Grecìa Salentina and Bovesia |
Calabrian Greek is mentioned in the Red Book of UNESCO on endangered languages,[3] together with Griko. In addition, Euromosaic analyses[4] and recognizes it as being an endangered and minority language in the European Union. It is mentioned by Ethnologue as a dialect of Modern Greek[5] in the sense of a modern vernacular language of the Hellenic family (as is the case with Pontic and Tsakonian Greek).