Salentino dialect
| Salentino | |
|---|---|
| salentinu | |
| Native to | Italy |
| Region | Salento (southern Apulia) formerly Corfu |
Native speakers | 1,500,000 but vulnerable (2017)https://docs.verbix.com/Languages/Salentino |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Salentino varieties marked in yellow, orange and red within the Apulia region | |
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Salentino (salentinu) is a dialect of the Extreme Southern Italian (italiano meridionale estremo in Italian) spoken in the Salento peninsula, which is the southern part of the region of Apulia at the southern "heel" of the Italian peninsula.