Italiot Greek

Italiot Greek
Native to	Italy
Region	Salento, Calabria
Ethnicity	Griko people
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Greek Attic–Ionic (Disputed) Doric (Disputed) Italiot Greek
Writing system	Greek alphabet, Latin alphabet
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Italy
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	apul1236  Apulia-Calabrian Greek
IETF	el-IT
Location map of the Italiot-speaking areas in Salento and Calabria

Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek and Salentino-Calabrian Greek refers to two varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people.

Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in some areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of the ancient colonisation of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as the Griko people who live in the Italian regions of Calabria, the southern tip of the Italian peninsula, and in Apulia, its southeasternmost corner. These varieties too are thought to have developed on the basis of an originally Doric ancient dialect, and have preserved some elements of it, though to a lesser extent than Tsakonian. They subsequently adopted influences from ancient Koiné, but became isolated from the rest of the Greek-speaking world after the decline of Byzantine rule in Italy during the Middle Ages. Among their linguistic peculiarities, besides influences from local Romance languages, is the preservation of the infinitive, which was lost in the modern Greek of the Balkans.

The dialects are:

• Griko, spoken in Salento
• Calabrian Greek, spoken in southern Calabria

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Languages of Italy

Historical linguistic minorities: Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Germanic, Greek, Ladin, Occitan, Romani, Sardinian, Slovene, Wenzhounese

Italo-Romance	Italian Regional Italian Tuscan Florentine Central Central-Northern Latian Marchigiano Romanesco Sabino Intermediate Southern (Neapolitan) Beneventano Barese Castelmezzanese Cilentan Cosentino Irpinian Arianese Molisan Southern Latian Tarantino Vastese Extreme Southern Central-Southern Calabrian Salentino Manduriano Sicilian Pantesco Other Italo-Dalmatian languages Corsican Gallurese Sassarese
Sardinian	Sardinian Campidanese Logudorese
Occitano-Romance	Catalan Algherese Occitan Vivaro-Alpine Mentonasc Niçard
Gallo-Romance	French Aostan Franco-Provençal Valdôtain Faetar Cellese
Gallo-Italic	Ligurian Brigasc Genoese Intemelio Monégasque Royasc Tabarchino Lombard Western Lombard Brianzöö dialects Canzés Bustocco and Legnanese Comasco-Lecchese dialects Comasco Laghée Vallassinese Lecchese Milanese Ticinese Ossolano Varesino Southwestern Lombard Pavese Novarese Cremunés Spasell Eastern Lombard Bergamasque Emilian–Romagnol Emilian Bolognese Parmigiano Romagnol Forlivese Other Gallo-Italic languages Gallo-Italic of Basilicata Gallo-Italic of Sicily Judeo-Italian Judaeo-Piedmontese Piedmontese
Venetian[a]	Venetian Fiuman Triestine
Rhaeto-Romance	Rhaeto-Romance Friulian Ladin Cadorino Fornes Nones

Albanian	Arbëresh language Arbëresh Vaccarizzo Albanian
South Slavic	Slovenian Brda Gail Valley Inner Carniolan Istrian Karst Natisone Valley Resian Torre Valley Serbo-Croatian Croatian Montenegrin Slavomolisano Triestine Serbian
Greek	Italiot Greek Calabrian Greek Griko
German	Bavarian Cimbrian Mòcheno Southern Bavarian South Tyrolean Other German dialects Austrian German Walser Yiddish
Others	Hebrew Italian Hebrew Italian Sign Language Romani Sinte Romani Wenzhounese

1. ^ Venetian is either grouped with the rest of the Italo-Dalmatian or the Gallo-Italic languages, depending on the linguist.

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