Variety of Italiot Greek spoken by the Griko people in Calabria
Calabrian Greek
Greko
Native to
Italy
Region
Calabria
Ethnicity
Greeks
Native speakers
c. 2,000 (2010)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Hellenic
Greek
Attic–Ionic (Disputed) Doric (Disputed)
Italiot Greek
Calabrian Greek
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Italy
Calabria
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
aspr1238 Aspromonte
Linguasphere
56-AAA-aib
IETF
el-Latn-u-sd-it78
Location map of the Italiot-speaking areas Grecìa Salentina and Bovesia
The Calabrian dialect of Greek (Italian: Grecanico[2]) is the variety of Italiot Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italiot Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. Both are remnants of the Ancient and Byzantine Greek colonization of the region.
Calabrian Greek is mentioned in the Red Book of UNESCO on endangered languages,[3] together with Griko. In addition, Euromosaic analyses[4] and recognizes it as being an endangered and minority language in the European Union. It is mentioned by Ethnologue as a dialect of Modern Greek[5] in the sense of a modern vernacular language of the Hellenic family (as is the case with Pontic and Tsakonian Greek).
^Tom Mueller, Calabria Grecanica Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, article at madeinsouthitaly.com. Retrieved 31 March 2015: "In the last 30 years alone, five Greek-speaking villages have been abandoned. Though no one knows exactly how many native speakers remain, they cannot number much above 2,000."
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