page_title: Salentino dialect
section_title: Characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Salentino dialect / Characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Dove è parlato il salentino
context_page_description: Salentino is a dialect of the Sicilian language spoken in the Salento peninsula in Apulia.
context_section_description: The term Salentino should be considered a general word to describe the various Romance vernaculars of the Salento peninsula, rather than one to describe a unified standard language spoken throughout the area. Indeed, in common with most other Italian languages, there are no agreed standards for spelling, grammar or pronunciation, with each locality and even generation having its own peculiarities. What unites the various local dialects of the Salento is their shared differences from the dialects further north in Apulia, such as the Tarantino and Barese dialect, and their similarities with other varieties of Sicilian, particularly those found in Calabria. In Sicily efforts have been made by the non-profit Cadèmia Siciliana to standardise the orthography for written insular Sicilian. They have also adopted a 'polycentric' approach which suggests that Salentino should have its own orthography within a family of Sicilian orthographies.
caption: different type of dialect in Salento
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