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Italian dialects may refer to: Regional Italian, any regional variety of the Italian language; Languages of Italy, any language spoken in Italy, regardless of origin;
[19] [18] In fact, Standard Italian itself can be thought of as either a continuation of, or a dialect heavily based on, the Florentine dialect of Tuscan. The indigenous Romance languages of Italy are therefore classified as separate languages that evolved from Latin just like Standard Italian, rather than "dialects" or variations of the latter.
Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional [note 1] variety of the Italian language.. Such vernacular varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the local non-immigrant languages of Italy [note 2] that predate the national tongue or any regional variety thereof.
Features that distinguish Marchigiano in general from Italian include: Apocope in words stressed on a penultimate syllable followed by /-nV/. The equivalents of Italian contadino, piccioni, and cane ('farmer, pigeons, dog') are contadì, picció, and cà. [1] The presence of the ending -aro or -aru (from Latin -ārium) where Italian instead has ...
Traditionally, the Lombard dialects have been classified into the Eastern, Western, Alpine and Southern Lombard dialects. [47] The varieties of the Italian provinces of Milan, Varese, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza, Pavia and Mantua belong to Western Lombard, and the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona are dialects of Eastern Lombard.
These languages derive, without exception, from Vulgar Latin but not from Tuscan; therefore it follows that the name "Italian" is a purely geographical reference. Today, Extreme Southern Italian dialects are still spoken daily, although their use is limited to informal contexts and is mostly oral.
The medieval Roman dialect belonged to the southern family of Italian dialects, and was thus much closer to the Neapolitan language than to the Florentine. [1] [2] The 11th-century Saint Clement and Sisinnius inscription already has Romanesco features.