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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 ...
It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo). [5] Ethnologue (see below for more detail) describes Sicilian as being "distinct enough from Standard Italian to be considered a separate language", [4] and it is recognized as a minority language by UNESCO.
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.
Tuscan is a dialect complex composed of many local variants, with minor differences among them. The main subdivisions are between Northern Tuscan dialects, the Southern Tuscan dialects, and Corsican. The Northern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west):
Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek, Salentino-Calabrian Greek or Apulia-Calabrian Greek, is a pair of varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people. Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as ...
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