The
Calabrian dialect of
Greek, or
Greek-Bovesian, 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. They are frequently lumped together as
Italiot Greek (Katoitaliótika), Grecanic or
Griko, but they have different developmental histories.