A Socio-demographic Profile of the Calabrian Linguistic Minorities

作     者：Giuseppe De Bartolo 

作者机构：University of CalabriaRendeItaly 

出 版 物：《Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management》 (旅游与酒店管理（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第9卷第6期

页      面：356-364页

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

主　　题：linguistic minorities demography Calabria 

摘      要：In Italy it is possible to identify 11 linguistic groups of ancient settlement,divided as follows:border minorities,who speak a language of a neighboring state;minorities that occupy some internal areas as a consequence of emigrations and diasporas;the so-called residual groups of formerly majority *** of these minority groups are present in Calabria:the Albanian minority,the Greek minority,and the Occitan *** Albanian community(Arbëreshë)is one of the most *** is present in various areas of the South,but the most important colonies are found in *** the course of time these populations have undergone a strong assimilation process with the consequence that in many municipalities the spread of the Albanian language has been increasingly reduced or has completely *** 1951 onwards the Albanian-speaking communities of Calabria have shown the first signs of demographic *** resident population gradually decreases and in many municipalities,especially the inland ones,there is a strong depopulation that still continues *** the Byzantine period the whole of Calabria was *** the southern part of Calabria remained Hellenophone in the Norman *** time,the Grecanic area has been increasingly reduced and today it survives only in a limited area of the province of Reggio *** the most remote causes of the decrease in Greek civilization we recall the abolition of the Greek rite in religious ceremonies,while after the Unity(Unita’d’Italia),an important role played the fight against the Greek language by the Italian *** this area has 11,211 residents and the speakers should be just 2,*** Occitan-Waldensians are the smallest linguistic minority of *** came to Calabria,from Piedmont,towards the end of the 14th century to escape religious *** the Occitan-Waldensian colonies survive only in Guardia Piemontese,San Sisto dei Valdesi,and San Vincenzo la Cos