Calabrian Greek

Calabrian Greek
Γκραίκο
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

Calabrian Greek (endonym: Greko/ Γκραίκο; 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).