Calabrian language

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Calabrian language is a dialect of southernmost Italian, spoken in the southernmost part of Calabria and strongly influenced by a Greek substrate. It is very close to the sicilien with which it forms a macro-language. In north of Calabria and in certain reduced communities one does not speak the dialect calabrian itself but an alternative of the Neapolitan one, and in certain villages, the of Provence one and Albanian are still used.

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