Italy

Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority

This book is about Salentine Greek—or simply Griko—a language of Greek origins transmitted orally from generation to generation in Salento, in the Apulian province of Lecce, the ‘heel’ of the boot of Italy. Its pool of speakers started shrinking after the contact that had once existed with Greece receded in the… Read more