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The Salentino dialect is a product of the different powers and/or populations that have had a presence in the peninsula over the centuries: indigenous Messapian, Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine Greek, Lombard, French and Spanish influences are all, to differing levels, present in the modern dialect, but the Greek substratum has had a particular impact on the phonology and the lexicon of this ...
The territory where the Extreme Southern dialects are found roughly traces the Byzantine territory in 9th century Italy. In this territory the spoken language was Greek, which still survives in some areas of Calabria and Salento and is known as Italiot Greek (see Greek linguistic minority of Italy).
Southern Italian dialects (Southern Latian dialect: IV a) The Southern Latian dialect (Italian: laziale meridionale [1]) is a Southern Italian dialect widespread in the southernmost areas of Lazio, in particular south of the city of Frosinone and starting from the cities of Formia and Gaeta along the coast.
These dialects are found in two areas: one near the regional capital of Potenza (in Tito, Picerno, Pignola and Vaglio Basilicata), but not in Castelmezzano, and another on the Tyrrhenian coast (Trecchina, Rivello, Nemoli and San Costantino). [2] Similar communities have survived in Sicily, speaking Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily.
Southern Italian may refer to: Anything of or from Southern Italy or the Mezzogiorno; The Neapolitan language, a language group native to Southern Italy; The Calabrian language, a language group native to Southern Italy; Extreme Southern Italian, a language group native to Southern Italy The Salentino dialect, a dialect native to Salento
The Osco-Umbrian languages or dialects of which testimony is preserved are: [8] Oscan, with spoken languages in the southern central region of the Italian peninsula, which includes: Oscan is the best documented language of the group, along with other varieties that are poorly known and considered related to Oscan: Marrucinian; Paeligni
The Northern Italian languages are conventionally defined as those Romance languages spoken north of the La Spezia–Rimini Line, which runs through the northern Apennine Mountains just to the north of Tuscany; however, the dialects of Occitan and Franco-Provençal spoken in the extreme northwest of Italy (e.g. the Valdôtain in the Aosta ...
Proto-Italo-Western was then defined as the "intermediate stage that was the parent of the Romance languages not included in the Southern or Eastern groups." [ 4 ] An obvious quality of the Sicilian vowel system is the restriction of vowels other than the aforementioned five ( a , e , i , o , u ).