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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).
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.
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
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 ...
In 2016, southern Italy's GDP and economy was growing twice as much as northern Italy's. [53] According to Eurostat figures published in 2019, southern Italy is the European area with the lowest percentages of employment: in Apulia, Sicily, Campania and Calabria, less than 50% of the people aged between 20 and 64 had a job in 2018. That is ...
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 ...
Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups in Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. This is thus the biggest language family in the world by number of mother tongue speakers (but not by number of languages: by this measure it is only the 3rd or 5th biggest).