Calabrian Greek

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Calabrian Greek is a minority Greek dialect spoken in parts of southern Italy, preserving ancient Hellenic linguistic features within the region of Calabria.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Calabrian Greek canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek dialect
endangered language
minority language
country Italy
endangermentStatus severely endangered
glottocode cala1258
hasAlternativeName Grecanico di Calabria
linked to: Grecanico

Greko
linked to: Griko
hasAncestor Ancient Greek
Byzantine Greek
linked to: Medieval Greek

Koine Greek
hasDialect Gallicianò variety
Roghudi variety
hasMorphologicalFeature conservative verb morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature retention of /u/ similar to Ancient Greek upsilon
hasSyntacticFeature use of enclitic pronouns
influencedBy Calabrian Romance dialects
linked to: Calabrian dialects

Italian language
Latin language
ISO639-3Code grk
languageBranch Hellenic
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageGroup Greek
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand
preservesFeature Doric Greek elements
ancient Hellenic vocabulary
archaisms from Koine Greek
protectedBy Italian law on historical linguistic minorities
recognizedAs historical linguistic minority in Italy
region Aspromonte
Bovesia
sharesFeaturesWith Griko
Standard Modern Greek
linked to: Modern Greek
spokenIn Calabria
southern Italy
linked to: Southern Italy
subclassOf Hellenic language
linked to: Hellenic languages

Indo-European language
Italiot Greek
linked to: Griko
subjectOf research on Italiot Greek dialects
sociolinguistic studies on language shift
threatenedBy language shift to Italian
urbanization and migration
usedIn folk songs
local religious practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Greek alphabet
Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Calabria hasRegionalLanguages Calabrian Greek
Calabria recognizedMinorityLanguage Calabrian Greek
subject linked to: modern Calabria