Greek Reporter

The Fascinating Evolution of the Greek Language Through Time

The language of the Greeks is a living organism that has endured millennia. Credit: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...
Neos Kosmos

Pharos Alliance marks 12 months of action to revitalise Modern Greek in NSW

The volunteer-led Pharos Alliance NSW says it has made significant early progress in its mission to strengthen and revitalise ...
La Brújula Verde

Tsakonian Is the Only Current Greek Language That Derives from the One Spoken by the Spartans

Although it is officially considered a dialect, Tsakonian is a divergent variety of Greek frequently classified as a separate language, as it is not intelligible to speakers of standard Modern Greek.
Science Daily

Last chance to record archaic Greek language 'heading for extinction'

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
The Guardian

Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to ancient world, researchers say

Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people An endangered form of Greek that is spoken by only a few thousand people in ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
Greek Reporter

How Fascist Italy Nearly Erased Calabrian Greek Heritage and the Grecanico Language

The Grecanico language, spoken by Greeks in Calabria, Italy, faced repression under Fascist rule and now stands at risk of ...
EurekAlert!

Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...