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The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Molise, but mostly concentrated in the regions of Calabria and Sicily).
The dialects spoken in the Abruzzo region can be divided into three main groups: Sabine dialect, in the province of L'Aquila, a central Italian dialect; Abruzzo Adriatic dialect, in the province of Teramo, Pescara and Chieti, that is virtually abandoned in the province of Ascoli Piceno, a southern Italian dialect
Trabucco in Fossacesia, Abruzzo Overflow near Marina San Vito Chietino, in the Abruzzo Trabocchi Coast. The trabucco (Italian:), known in some southern dialects as trabocco or travocc, [1] is an ancient fishing machine typical of the Adriatic shores of Abruzzo — famously dubbed the Costa dei Trabocchi ( Trabocchi Coast) and the Gargano coast, where they are preserved as historical monuments ...
D'Annunzio was born in the township of Pescara, in the modern-day Italian region of Abruzzo, the son of a wealthy landowner and mayor of the town, Francesco Paolo Rapagnetta D'Annunzio (1838–1893) and his wife Luisa de Benedictis (1839–1917). His father was born Francesco Paolo Rapagnetta, the sixth child of Camillo Rapagnetta, a shoemaker ...
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.
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Date of revival Region Ethnic group Cornish: Indo-European: 1700s AD [123] 1900s Cornwall: Cornish people: Livonian: Uralic: 2 June 2013 [124] 2020 Livonian Coast: Livonians: Ludza: Uralic: 2006 [125] or 2014 2020 Latgale: Ludza Estonians: Manx: Indo-European: 27 December 1974 [126] 1970s Isle of Man ...
The geographer Strabo states that the Samnites would take ten virgin women and ten young men, who were considered to be the best representation of their sex, and marry them. [132] Following this, the second-best women would be given to the second-best males. This would continue until all 20 people had been assigned to one another.
The last first-language speakers of Auregnais, the dialect of Norman spoken on Alderney, died during the 20th century, although some rememberers are still alive. The dialect of Herm also lapsed at an unknown date; the patois spoken there was likely Guernésiais (Herm was not inhabited all year round in the Norman culture's heyday).