Grecia Salentina/Griko area: speaking with locals in Sternatia (Apulia)

[@piroskaracz3621]

Beautiful. Love not only the language but everyone is so warm and welcoming

[@GiovanniVillino]

Che cosa splendida

[@gioq4702]

mi immagino i primi coloni greci, per loro l'italia era come l'america!

[@Cr4z33_YT]

I live in this area in a town called Calimera (what else hehe?) and although I don't know Griko it's always cool to see when coaches of Greek tourists stop at the central square of my town and they get into a bar and local elderly people start chatting with them. All you hear is a mix of ancient and modern Greek and they all basically understand what's going on (but me 😂).

[@papertoyss]

Cool! Perhaps you should consider trying yourself to preserve the language though..

[@kelor]

Oria mou picciulina ce galanta.. Saluti da Grecia!

[@kelor]

😀😉❤️😊 Dov e e come si chiama vostro villagio ? Vogliamo venire!!

[@0082-u4d]

Ciao grazie del video geia sas

[@electra1920]

Video bellissimo e emozionante 😢grazie

[@Frauenheld1]

Έχει πολύ ενδιαφέρον να ακούσει κανείς πως υπάρχουν περισσότερες διαφορετικές διάλεκτοι της νεοελληνικής γλώσσας στο εξωτερικό (π.χ. στη Κύπρο και στην κάτω Ιταλία) από και στη χώρα μας..ωραία!

[@jimmychristakakis5735]

Bravo Basili, Skatalaveno otan leni Fasoulatha.

[@Lamiabibliotecapersonale]

Continuate a parlare il greco del Salento affinché non su estingua.

[@danielebernardo2349]

I giovani di li sanno ancora parlarlo? O solo gli anziani ?

[@Ff-rr6uj]

@@danielebernardo2349 spero ben de si, paro penso de no..

[@LandosTravel]

@@Ff-rr6uj ao che se de roma

[@nessym7766]

​@@danielebernardo2349purtroppo no. Parlano solo il dialetto leccese standard 😢 però nelle scuole locali delle province interessate organizzano dei corsi per mantenere la lingua viva. Ma non credo che basti. Peccato

[@giorgetto5831]

​@@danielebernardo2349i giovani purtroppo sanno solo poche parole, ed anche gli anziani tendono a star sostituendo molti termini in griko con quelli del dialetto romanzo. La situazione prende un po' più di vita quando arrivano i turisti da noi, e si inizia anche ad utilizzare termini in neogreco (imparati con il tempo, visto che è una zona che presenta abbastanza turismo dalla Grecia) oltre che in griko

[@panayotisdamianakis3658]

This was a good thing that you have done. The world should not forget these good people. Did you eventually complete your documentary? I would love to see it.

[@splitter9525]

I love Italy

[@cocotitoroma4449]

Bel video

[@ΛάζαροςΧαλκίδης-κ5θ]

Ζωντανη η ιστορία

[@mickeymouse1697]

BRAVO

[@lone.wolf_5791]

The very first colonies from Greece which settled in southern Italy arrived due to forced migration and subsequently trade, where the indigenous southern Italians welcomed them and gave them refuge, and a home. It is believed the first migrants fled from the ancient city of Troy (now part of modern day Turkey) in the 12th century BC which was under siege by king Agamemnon of Mycenae, along with the fabled warrior Achilles, who famously died when a Trojan arrow pierced his ankle. Troy was seized after queen Helen of Sparta eloped with Paris, the son of the Trojan king, Priam. Helen's husband, king Menelaus of Sparta was outraged by his wife's betrayal and along with his brother, king Agamemnon, sent a massive coalition force to Troy to avenge the insult. Rome, eventually some centuries later, conquered all of Greece, including legendary Sparta which succumbed to the might of Rome during the Laconian war of 192BC. The first ancient Greek speaking settlers on the southern Italian peninsula owed an enormous debt of gratitude to their new Italian neighbours and hosts, who gave them sanctuary, and a new home. So vast was the exodus of their numbers that the ancient Romans named the regions of their colonies 'Magna Graecia', or 'Greater Greece', and traces of their ancient Greek language can still be found today among small numbers of locals of Italian regions in Sicily, Calabria and Salento in the form of 'Griko', a modern and heavily diluted variation of its ancient Greek ancestral language.

[@angeloritofasanaro9850]

Καλά βασιλε αλλά είμαστε ..ο πατέρα μου ...βασιλικο καλιμερα πολι ορεο παντρεμένο το ιταλο είναι ματερεμου μιλάμε καλά λιπαροτο όνομα σου γράσσο ναι παλεα φασουλάδα καλλισθο χαριστοω πολι

[@MrAbagaz]

Even when the elders cant speak the dialect fluently this means that its already a lost language.Pitty

[@billywood8870]

not at all, they spoke to each other in Greko. They spoke to us with some Standard Modern Greko (they had worked with Greeks in other countries) in order for us to communicate better

[@ltoppi]

Ma che cazzo lingua e

[@gp6535]

E'un dialetto greco, il griko. Un tempo lontano, era parlato in tutta la Puglia, oggi e'parlato solo da un centinaio di persone. L'italiano, avanza sempre più...

[@marcomerra6899]

@@gp6535 parlato in tutta la Puglia??

[@gp6535]

Ai tempi della magna Grecia si...

[@marcomerra6899]

@@gp6535 be le città greche in Puglia erano solo una piccola minoranza come canosa, Manduria, Gallipoli, Taranto ecc mentre il resto della popolazione erano Illiri: Dauni in capitanata, Peucezi in Terra Di Bari e Messapi in terra d'Otranto.

[@brunobassi2440]

@@marcomerra6899 si ma gli illiri, i greci e gli italiani del sud hanno lo stesso DNA... Gli albanesi contemporanei invece sono spesso mescolati coi turchi e altre popolazioni balcaniche.