Griko language

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Griko
Γκραίκο · Γκρίκο
Native to	Italy
Region	Salento, Calabria
Ethnicity	Griko people
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1981)[1] 40,000 to 50,000 L2 speakers
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Greek Attic–Ionic (Disputed) Doric (Disputed) Italiot Greek Griko
Writing system	Greek alphabet, Latin alphabet
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Italy  Apulia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	apul1237  Apulian Greek
ELP	Griko
Linguasphere	56-AAA-aia
IETF	el-u-sd-it75
Location map of the Italiot-speaking areas in Salento and Calabria

Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is the dialect of Italiot Greek spoken by Griko people in Salento (province of Lecce), and also called Grecanico,^{[2][3][4][5][6]} in Calabria. Some Greek linguists consider it to be a Modern Greek dialect and often call it Katoitaliótika (Greek: Κατωιταλιώτικα, "Southern Italian") or Grekanika (Γραικάνικα), whereas its own speakers call it Greko (Γκραίκο, in Calabria) or Griko (Γκρίκο, in Salento). Griko is spoken in Salento while Greko is spoken in Calabria. Griko and Standard Modern Greek are partially mutually intelligible.^[7]