Southern Italian Koiné

Southern Italian koiné was a koiné language that had evolved due to contact between Naples, Amalfi, Salerno and other ports. It was spread by the Normans as a result of policies that favoured the Latin-rite Catholicism of the Holy See over the local Greek Rites, and Languages. Its spread may have contributed substantially to the then developing Sicilian language.^[1]

References

^ "Vernacular Greek in Southern Italy". enosi-griko.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.

[enosi-griko-1] "Vernacular Greek in Southern Italy". enosi-griko.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.

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