The Calabrian dialect (Greek: Κατωιταλική διάλεκτος) of Greek, or Greek-Bovesian, is the version of Italian Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italian Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. Both are remnants of the ancient and Byzantine Greek colonisation of the region. They are frequently lumped together as Italiot Greek (Katoitaliótika) or Grecanic or Griko, but have different developmental histories.
Calabrian Greek is mentioned in the Red Book of UNESCO on endangered languages [1], together with the Grecanic; in addition, Euromosaic analyzes [2] and recognizes it as being an endangered and minority language in the European Union. It is also mentioned by Ethnologue as a dialect of Modern Greek [3], in the sense of a modern vernacular language of the Hellenic family (as is the case with Pontic and Tsakonian Greek.
However, this form of Greek has never experienced an extensive growth period during its history, and it has only ever been used in basic day-to-day communications, without ever playing a significant role in the fields of administration, literature, or ecclesiastical matters.
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