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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).
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 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]
The dialect is therefore in many respects similar, in particular in the vocabulary, to the dialects of Campania, although it differs from them on the phonetic level (similar to the Abruzzo dialects) and from the influence of the Central-Northern Latian dialects spoken in the nearby central-northern areas of the provinces of Frosinone and Latina.
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.
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.
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