Today, the Griko are Catholics. The name Griko derives from the traditional name for Greeks on the Italian peninsula, it is believed to derive from the Graecians, an ancient Hellenic tribe which according to legend took their name from Graecus. They were one of …

Griko (endonym: Griko / Γκρίκο), sometimes spelled Grico, is one of the two dialects of Italiot Greek (the other being Calabrian Greek or Grecanico), spoken by Griko people in Salento, province of Lecce, Italy.

2017年12月8日 · Cosmos Philly profiles the few surviving Griko communities of the southern Italian region of Calabria. The Griko (sometimes spelled Greko) are the last remnants of thousands of years of Greek presence in Italy, and their language is now critically endangered.

Calabrian Greek (endonym: Γκρίκο, Griko; Italian: Grecanico[2]) is the variety of Italiot Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italiot Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. Both are remnants of the Ancient and Byzantine Greek colonization of …

Griko is a variety of Italiot Greek spoken by about 60-70,000 people in Apulia and Calabria in southern Italy. Greek linguists call this language Grekanika (Γρεκάνικα) or Katoitaliotikà (Κατωιταλιώτικα ("Southern Italian").

2020年10月26日 · The Griko people, sometimes referred to as Grecanici in Italy, are an ethnic Greek community found in the southern regions of Italy. While the Arbereshe were spread out throughout the south, the Griko are concentrated mainly in …

2024年4月27日 · To this day, an ethnic minority called the Griko people reside within the bounds of ancient Magna Graecia, in the Southern Italian regions of Calabria (specifically the Province of Reggio Calabria) and Apulia (specifically, the Salento peninsula).

Greko and Griko are the two minority languages of Greek origins spoken in the south of Italy. In Calabria, Greko is spoken in a small number of villages located in the slopes of the Aspromonte Massif (southern Calabria), namely Bova, Bova Marina, Condofuri, Gallicianò, and Rochudi Nuovo and in a few other towns by the coast.

2020年11月30日 · A few kilometers away from Greece, in southern Italy, in the well-known Magna Grecia, the Griko or Greko dialect is spoken. Despite the passage of time and the difficulties involved, this form of the Greek language remains alive.

2021年2月4日 · The Griko people, also known in Calabria as Grecanici, are an ethnic Greek minority in the Southern area of Italy. They are located mostly in the regions of Calabria (Reggio Calabria Province) and Apulia (peninsula of Salento).