Re: Books

I wrote:
"...and the scarcity of information on Glossa/Romaico/Italiote Greek
on the Web..."

     Allow me to correct myself.  Glossa/Gr(a)ecanic/Romaico/Griko does have
a small web presence.  I collected the following websites earlier today:

General Information:
Euromosaic
http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/grec/an/i1/i1.html#1
An excellent site (in Catalan) regarding minority languages in Europe; there
is a page on Griko.

GeoNative
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/griko.html
No doubt, many are familiar with this website (in Basque and English); you
may not have known that there is a section on Griko.

Coordinamento Associazioni della Grecìa Salentina
http://www.geocities.com/enosi_griko/index.html
Political and Historical information about the Greek spoken around the area
of Otranto in the Salentine peninsula.

Soleto On-Line
http://www.freeweb.org/associazioni/soleto/
A rather graphic-intensive website regarding the same.  Warning: lots and
lots of frames.

Stampato C. 3249
http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg13/lavori/stampati/sk3500/relazion/3249.htm
Draft of a law regarding protection of the Italiote Greek dialects in
Puglia.


Grammar of Specific Dialects:
Salentine Greek
http://atlante.clio.it/grecia/default.html
This site has a remarkable amount of material on the dialect of Greek spoken
in Puglia.

Grika Milume
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4436/
Another impressive site detailing the Greek of Salento.


Texts:
Christus Rex
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-grecanic.html
This is an evangelic website which has versions of the Pater Noster in most
ethnic languages (and even a few conlangs).  I've seen plenty of mistakes in
their texts, so take them with a grain of salt (or better, an entire
pillar!).

The Two Sicilies
http://www.duesicilie.org/Frame-gs.html
It would appear that the South of Italy has spawned its own secessionist
movement to mirror that of the North.  They have propagandistic texts in
most languages, including Grecanico.

One of G. Morosi's poems
http://www.amalteaonline.com/AdaManfreda/AM63.htm
Ada Manfreda has reproduced one of the Griko poems published by Morosi in
1870.


Sources for more texts:
Istituto Comprensivo Castignano de'Greci
http://www.dida.anet.it/castrgreci/serv02.htm
These folks publish references for Apulian Greek.

The Graecanic Lexicon:
http://www.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr/Project/Grec/index.html
This site hosts sound files of sentences and individual words being
pronounced by a number of native speakers from both Calabria and Puglia, in
addition to plenty of information regarding both communities.


ObConlang:
The Republic of Molossia
http://www.molossia.org/griko.html
The independent "Republic of Molossia" (Nevada, USA; pop. 4) has, as one of
its official languages, Griko.  There is a brief description of the grammar
of this language.


    To my knowledge, there also exists a Bible in Griko, published in the
last century by Giuseppe Viola; and there are a few more references to 19th
century fieldwork in the area.

-Chollie
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