Editing Griko language (section)

{{short description|Dialect of Italiot Greek}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Griko
| nativename       = {{lang|el-IT|Γκρίκο}}
| states           = Italy
| region           = [[Salento]]
| ethnicity        = [[Griko people]]
| speakers         = 20,000
| date             = 1981
| speakers2        = 40,000 to 50,000 [[Second language|L2]] speakers
| ref              = <ref>{{cite book |first=N. |last=Vincent |chapter=Italian |editor-first=B. |editor-last=Comrie |title=The world's major languages |location=London |publisher=Croom Helm |date=1981 |pages=279–302}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Hellenic languages|Hellenic]]
| fam3             = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| fam4             = (disputed) 
| fam5             = [[Attic Greek|Attic]]–[[Ionic Greek|Ionic]]
| fam6             = [[Attic Greek|Attic]]
| fam7             = [[Koine Greek|Koine]]
| fam8             = [[Italiot Greek|Italiot]]
| isoexception     = dialect
| script           = [[Greek alphabet]], [[Latin alphabet]]
| minority         = {{Flag|Italy}}<br/><ul><li>{{flag|Apulia}}</li></ul>
| lingua           = 56-AAA-aia
| glotto           = apul1237
| glottoname       = Apulian Greek<!--name as listed at Glottolog-->
| map              = GrikoSpeakingCommunitiesTodayV4.png
| mapscale         = 1
| mapcaption       = Location map of the Italiot-speaking areas in Salento and Calabria
| ietf              = el-u-sd-it75
}}
'''Griko''' ([[endonym]]: {{Transliteration|el|Griko}}/{{lang|el-IT|Γκρίκο}}), sometimes spelled '''Grico''', is one of the two dialects of [[Italiot Greek]] (the other being [[Calabrian Greek]] or {{lang|it|Grecanico}}), spoken by [[Griko people]] in [[Salento]], [[province of Lecce]], Italy.<ref>F. Violi, ''Lessico Grecanico-Italiano-Grecanico'', Apodiafàzzi, [[Reggio Calabria]], 1997.</ref><ref>Paolo Martino, ''L'isola grecanica dell'Aspromonte. Aspetti sociolinguistici'', 1980. Risultati di un'inchiesta del 1977</ref><ref>Filippo Violi, ''Storia degli studi e della letteratura popolare grecanica'', C.S.E. [[Bova (Italia)|Bova]] ([[Provincia di Reggio Calabria|RC]]), 1992</ref><ref>Filippo Condemi, ''Grammatica Grecanica'', Coop. Contezza, [[Reggio Calabria]], 1987;</ref><ref>[http://www.treccani.it/lingua_italiana/speciali/minoranze/Romano.html In Salento e Calabria le voci della minoranza linguistica greca | Treccani, il portale del sapere<!-- Titolo generato automaticamente -->]</ref> Some Greek linguists consider it to be a [[Modern Greek]] dialect and often call it {{Transliteration|el|Katoitaliótika}} ({{langx|el|Κατωιταλιώτικα||Southern Italian}}) or {{Transliteration|el|Grekanika}} ({{lang|el|Γραικάνικα}}). Griko and [[Standard Modern Greek]] are partially [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Harald Hammarström|last=Hammarström|first=Harald|year=2015|title=[[Ethnologue]] 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices}}</ref>