Griko language

Griko language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Griko Katoitalitika Spoken in Italy Region Southern east of Reggio Calabria Salento and Aspromonte Total speakers 200001 Language family Indo-European Proto-Greek Attic Koine Griko Language codes ISO 639-3 Linguist List ell-gri Linguasphere 56-AAA-ai Location map of the Griko-speaking areas in Salento and Calabria Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Lecce Griko Luppu Greek Alission pronounced lech ay is a historic city in southern Italy the capital of the province of Lecce as well as the one of the most important cities of Apulia It is the main city of the Salentine Peninsula a sub peninsula at the heel of the Italian Peninsula and is over 2 000 years old Because of the rich Baroque architectural monuments found in the city Lecce is commonly nicknamed the quot The Florence of the South quot The city also has a long traditional affinity with Greek culture going back to its foundation the Messapii who founded the city are said to have been Cretans in Greek records To this day in the Greca Salentina a group of towns not far from Lecce the griko language is still spoken In terms of industry the quot Lecce stone quot is the city s main export because it is very soft and malleable it is very good for sculptures Lecce stone is a kind of limestone
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The Holy Trinity - ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΑΚΟ ΤΡΙΠΤΥΧΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΠΑΘΗ (Documentary)

Griko people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Griko people traditionally spoke the Griko language which is a form of the Greek language. ... Griko who speak the Griko language has been greatly reduced; the ...

Griko sometimes spelled Grico is a form of the Greek language which is spoken by the Griko people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy. The Greeks consider it as a Modern Greek dialect and often call it Katoitaliotika (Greek: "Southern Italian") or Grekanika (). Griko and Standard Modern Greek are mutually intelligible to some extent. Classification Part of a series on Greeks By region or country Greece Cyprus Greek diaspora Subgroups Antiochians Arvanites/Souliotes Cypriots Grecanici Karamanlides Macedonians Maniots Northern Epirotes Phanariotes Pontians Romaniotes Sarakatsani Sfakians Slavophones Tsakonians Urums Greek culture Art Cinema Cuisine Dance Dress Education Flag Language Literature Music Philosophy Politics Religion Sport Television Religion Greek Orthodox Church Greek Roman Catholicism Greek Byzantine Catholicism Greek Evangelicalism Judaism Islam Neopaganism Languages and dialects Greek Calabrian Greek Cappadocian Greek Cretan Greek Griko Cypriot Greek Cheimarriotika Maniot Greek Pontic Greek Tsakonian Yevanic Arvanitika Karamanlidika Slavika Urum History of Greece v d e

This amazing all female group from Southern Apulia has a unique Mediterranean sound where Italian Greek and Balkanic melt together All the lyrics are sung in Griko the ancient Homer s language still spoken in their area
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GRIKO
The Greek language spoken in Italy, known by the names grico, griko, greco-bovese or ... Griko is not a unitary language since it is spoken in two geographically and ...

The most popular hypothesis on the origin of Griko is the one by Gerhard Rohlfs2 and Georgios Hatzidakis stating that Griko's roots go as far back in history as the time of the ancient Greek colonisation of Southern Italy and Sicily in the 8th century BC and in that respect this Southern Italian dialect is considered to be the last living trace of the Greek elements that once formed Magna Graecia.

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Griko language - VisWiki
Griko language - Greek-Calabrian dialect, Salento, Doric Greek, Ghetonia, Bovesia - VisWiki

There are however competing hypotheses according to which Griko may have preserved some Doric elements but its structure is otherwise mostly based on mainstream Koin Greek like almost all other Modern Greek dialects.3 Thus Griko should rather be described as a Doric-influenced descendant of Byzantine Greek. The idea of Southern Italy's Greek dialects being historically derived from Medieval Greek was proposed for the first time in the 19th century by Giuseppe Morosi.4 Geographic distribution

Griko language at AllExperts
Griko sometimes spelled Grico is a Modern Greek dialect which is spoken by people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy and Sicily and it is ...

Two small Griko-speaking communities survive today in the Italian regions of Calabria (Province of Reggio Calabria) and Puglia (peninsula of Salento). The Griko-speaking area of Salento comprises nine small towns in the Greca Salentina region (Calimera Martano Castrignano de' Greci Corigliano d'Otranto Melpignano Soleto Sternatia Zollino Martignano) with a total of 40000 inhabitants. The Calabrian Griko region also consists of nine villages in Bovesia (including Bova Superiore Roghudi Gallician Choro di Roghudi and Bova Marina) and four districts in the city of Reggio Calabria but its population is significantly smaller supposedly around 2000. Official status

Griko language - Definition | WordIQ.com
Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a language combining ancient Greek, ... Griko is spoken by people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy and Sicily, and ...

The Italian parliament has recognized the Griko community of Reggio Calabria and Salento as an ethnic and linguistic minority under the name of "Minoranze linguistiche Grike dell'Etnia Griko-Calabrese e Salentina" (linguistic minority of the Griko-Calabrian and Salentinian ethnicity). Culture

Griko language - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
{language |name=Griko |nativename=Κατωιταλιώτικα |familycolor=Indo ... Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a Modern Greek dialect which is spoken by people in the Magna Graecia ...

There is rich oral tradition and Griko folklore. Griko songs music and poetry are particularly popular in Italy and Greece. Famous music groups from Salento include Ghetonia and Aramir. Also influential Greek artists such as Dionysis Savvopoulos and Maria Farantouri have performed in Griko. Sample

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Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a form of the Greek language which is spoken by the Griko people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy. ...

Sample text from - Kalinifta "good night" a popular Griko song: Griko ' .

Griko - Wiktionary
[edit] Proper noun. Wikipedia has an article on: Griko language ... A Greek dialect or language, spoken in southern Italy and in Sicily, combining ...

transliteration: Evo panta se sena penso yiat sena fsuche mou ghap ce pou pao pou syrno pou steo stin kardi mou panta sena vast. Modern Greek .

Griko - Himatsubushi Wikipedia
Location map of the Griko-speaking areas in Salento and CalabriaGriko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a form of the Greek language which is spoken by the Griko people in ...

transliteration: Ego panda esena skeftome yiati esena psihi mou agapo kai opou pao opou sernome opou steko stin kardi mou panda esena vasto. English Translation I always think of you because I love you my soul and wherever I go wherever I drag myself into wherever I stay I always hold you inside my heart. Notes and references N. Vincent Italian in B. Comrie (ed.) The world's major languages London Croom Helm 1981. p.p.279-302. G. Rohlfs Griechen und Romanen in Unteritalien 1924. G. Horrocks Greek: A history of the language and its speakers London: Longman. 1997. Ch. 4.4.3 and 14.2.3. G. Morosi Studi sui dialetti greci della terra d'Otranto Lecce 1870. See also Hellenic languages Greek-Calabrian dialect Griko people External links Grika milume! An online Griko community Enosi Griko Coordination of Greca Salentina Associations Greca Salentina official site (in Italian) Gaze On The Sea Salentinian Peninsula Greece and Greater Greece (in Italian Greek and English) Salento Griko (in Italian) English-Griko dictionary Kalinifta by Ghetonia Oria mou rodinedda folk song of the Griko-speaking communities of southern Italy by Eleni & Souzana Vougioukli