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Reggino is Reggio Calabria’s speech, the biggest city of Calabria, in front of Sicily. Because of its geographical position and for historical reasons, Reggino is a Sicilian dialect: in fact, as the Sicilian linguist Alberto Varvaro (1934-2014) wrote in 1988, all the isoglosses that divide Sicilian from the dialects of continental Italy pass through Calabria – in other words, the Strait of Messina is not a linguistic border. But it is also true that, like all the other dialects of southern Calabria (together with that of Messina and those of several villages of the province of Catania), it shows an important Greek influence, and this because in this area Greek – which can be still found in the province of Reggio – and Latin were spoken together until the 13 th century: among other things, this fact can be seen with the conjugation “mi” (which is like the Greek one “να”: “vogghiu mi vai” [“I want you to go”], a calque from Calabrian Greek “thèlo na pase”).