Characteristics
This language has a lot in common with standard Greek. When speaking of its origins, some philologists assert that it is a dialect derived from Koine Greek through Medieval Greek, while others assert that it comes directly from Ancient Greek and particularly from the Doric Greek spoken in Magna Graecia, with an independent evolution uninfluenced by Koine Greek.
The evidence is based on archaisms in this language, including the presence of words derived from Doric Greek but disused in Greece (except in Tsakonian). There are also quite a few distinctive characteristics in comparison with standard Modern Greek. For example, in many cases the final "-s" in most words has been lost (i.e. gaidaros (donkey) becomes gadaro in Calabrian Greek). Moreover, a future tense does not exist in this dialect, this grammatical requirement being met by the use of the present tense.
An important peculiarity is that it uses the Latin script and not the Greek.
Read more about this topic: Calabrian Greek Dialect