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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).
Sicilian language (5 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Extreme Southern Italian dialects" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Dialects of Italian" ... Central-Northern Latian dialect; Corsican language; E. Extreme Southern Italian; F. Ferrarese dialect; G.
The primary roots of the dialects is Latin. [3] Southern and Central Calabrian dialects are strongly influenced by a Greek substratum and ensuing levels of Latin influence and other external Southern Italian superstrata, in part hindered by geography, resulted in the many local variations found between the idioms of Calabria. [4]
According to Minority Rights Group International: "The ethnic Albanian (Arbëresh) dialects of Italy bear little resemblance to the standard language or dialects of Albania, as they have been cut off from the main language for around 500 years. Some dialects spoken in Italy are so dissimilar that ethnic Albanians use Italian as a lingua franca ...
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.