Actually parts of Southern Italy spoke Greek also during the Roman age, and the Greek-speaking villages of Calabria and Salento (which have undergone a process of koineization up until the end of the Byzantine rule, but they trace their origins in the Magna Graecia period) still remind us that.
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Actually parts of Southern Italy spoke Greek also during the Roman age, and the Greek-speaking villages of Calabria and Salento (which have undergone a process of koineization up until the end of the Byzantine rule, but they trace their origins in the Magna Graecia period) still remind us that.
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Now the linguistic community has to fight to preserve regional languages in Italy and France which, due to language policies, are now often endangered