DESIGNING COEXSTIANCE

SALENTINO GREEK AS A CRITICAL SPACE FOR MULTIGRAPHICISM DESIGN

Abstract

Italian keyboards do not include Greek characters or the necessary diacritics, rendering digital writing fragmented and inefficient. The result is a reduced and standardized representation of the language, modeled on dominant Italian writing. The introduction of a multiscript digital keyboard for Salentino Greek constitutes a concrete critical design proposal. It addresses the issues of the marginalization of Greek letters in recent lexicographies and the lack of typographic and digital support, which imposes incoherent transliterations. The project resolves these problems, enabling the alternation and coexistence of Greek and Latin characters for more accurate phonological representation. Methodologically, the keyboard is a conceptual prototype developed on the characters of Salentino Greek writing, currently under experimental testing and subject to revision. It is not merely a theoretical simulation but a model testable on open-source keyboard-mapping platforms.