Salentino dialect

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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 family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Extreme Southern Italian Salentino
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Salentino (salentinu) is a dialect of the Extreme Southern Italian (Italiano meridionale estremo in Italian)^[1][2] spoken in the Salento peninsula, which is the southern part of the region of Apulia at the southern "heel" of the Italian peninsula.