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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;
The main Italian-language newspapers published outside Italy are the L'Osservatore Romano (Vatican City), the L'Informazione di San Marino , the Corriere del Ticino and the laRegione Ticino (Switzerland), the La Voce del Popolo , the Corriere d'Italia (Germany), the L'italoeuropeo (United Kingdom), the Passaparola , the America Oggi (United ...
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The Italian Rhaeto-Romance languages, including Ladin and Friulian. The poorly researched Istriot language. The Venetian language (sometimes grouped with the majority Gallo-Italian languages). The Gallo-Italian languages, including all the rest (although with some doubt regarding the position of Ligurian).
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.
The Central Italian dialect area is bisected by isoglosses that roughly follow a line running from Rome to Ancona (see map). The zones to the south and north of this line are sometimes called the Area Mediana and Area Perimediana respectively. (Area Mediana may also be used in a broader sense to refer to both zones.) [4]
Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, specifically on its Florentine dialect, and it became the language of culture throughout Italy [1] because of the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini.
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.