My friend Allesandro Spiliotopoulos has just released this short comedy called “To Fukari ti Jenia” or “The Box of Geaneology”. This short is shot entirely in Gracecanic, the dialect spoken by a small minority located in some remote villages in Calabria. Below is the link to click and watch. If you have time, please register and vote for Allesandro’s entry into the short film competition.
http://www.242movietv.com/video/to-fukari-ti-jenia-la-scatola-di-stirpe
The movie only has Italian subtitles but if you know Greek, watch the movie and keep track of how how many Greek words you can pick out in the conversations. Leave a comment and share how many Greek words you recognized.
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GREAT find, thanks for sharing. I speak both Greek and Italian, and my brain is completley confused right now as to which language to process.
Its very much modern Greek infused with Italian words and accents….. Theres myth going around that this language is from Ancient colonization of Italy (Magna Grecia), but the language is very obviously from modern (Medieval) Greek.
There were some Greek communities that moved to Italy following the fall of Byzantium, its amazing how so many centuries without cultural contact with Greece they have kept the language alive. I’d be curious to see if they retained any recipes from the old country!
Very interesting!
Cheers,
Rosa
Peshwa sahib…shall I leave a comment? You know the answer…I’d better get on with the cake!
Thank you for the wishes…
Love it! Thanks for posting. I’m going to try to tweet it too but I’m new to Twitter so we’ll see. I’d love to visit this region someday. Peter, you should run food tours through Greece and related areas (like this!). Check out Seasons of My Heart, where Susana Trilling does similar tours in Mexico, organized around a food (like vanilla) and a festival (the Spring Equinox occurs during the vanilla pollination season, for example). My mom and I have been on several and loved them because she gets you in to local people’s homes for cooking classes and really takes you off the beaten track.
I will send this link to my dad and aunt who speak Italian and (at one time) Greek and see what they can come up with.
I just saw this and thought I would send it to you.
Very interesting Peter! Thank you for sharing!