 In 2018, Metin Bağrıaçık published a thesis on Pharasiot Greek, based on speakers remaining in Greece.The Greek dialect of Sille (near Iconium/Konya) was the most divergent of the varieties of Asia Minor Greek.Griko or Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in some areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of the ancient colonisation of Magna Graecia.