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Southern Italian dialects (Southern Latian dialect: IV a) The Southern Latian dialect (Italian: laziale meridionale [1]) is a Southern Italian dialect widespread in the southernmost areas of Lazio, in particular south of the city of Frosinone and starting from the cities of Formia and Gaeta along the coast.
The Salentino dialect is a product of the different powers and/or populations that have had a presence in the peninsula over the centuries: indigenous Messapian, Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine Greek, Lombard, French and Spanish influences are all, to differing levels, present in the modern dialect, but the Greek substratum has had a particular impact on the phonology and the lexicon of this ...
The territory where the Extreme Southern dialects are found roughly traces the Byzantine territory in 9th century Italy. In this territory the spoken language was Greek, which still survives in some areas of Calabria and Salento and is known as Italiot Greek (see Greek linguistic minority of Italy).
Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano [(o n)napuliˈtɑːnə]; Italian: napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples , which once covered most of the area, and the city of Naples was its capital.
Sicilian language (5 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Extreme Southern Italian dialects" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Southern Italian may refer to: Anything of or from Southern Italy or the Mezzogiorno; The Neapolitan language, a language group native to Southern Italy; The Calabrian language, a language group native to Southern Italy; Extreme Southern Italian, a language group native to Southern Italy The Salentino dialect, a dialect native to Salento
Proto-Italo-Western was then defined as the "intermediate stage that was the parent of the Romance languages not included in the Southern or Eastern groups." [ 4 ] An obvious quality of the Sicilian vowel system is the restriction of vowels other than the aforementioned five ( a , e , i , o , u ).
Barese dialect (natively dialètte barése; Italian: dialetto barese) is an Italoromance dialect belonging to the southern intermediate group, spoken in the Apulia and Basilicata regions of Italy. Considered to be a variant of Naples dialect.