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	Italian Dialects
		Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their domination.
		The dialects of Italian identified by the Ethnologue are Tuscan, Piemontese, Sardinian, Abruzzese, Pugliese (Apulian), Umbrian, Laziale, Central Marchigiano, Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano, and Molisan.
		Many of the so-called dialects of Italian spoken around the country are different enough from standard Italian to be considered separate languages by most linguists and some speakers themselves.
	www.italian-language.biz /italian/dialects.asp (439 words)

	Italian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Italian is based on the Tuscan dialect and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North.
		In contrast to the dialects of northern Italy, the older southern Italian dialects were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the middle ages.
		Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, spoken mainly in Ticino and Grigioni cantons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_language (3113 words)

	Italian dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The question of synthesising an Italian language from the various dialects was the main goal in the life of Alessandro Manzoni, who advocated to build a national language mainly on the Florence vernacular, that had gained prestige since Dante Alighieri had used it in his Divina Commedia.
		Dialects of Italian are regional varieties which are closely related to Standard Italian, while the terms Dialects of Italy is suggested for those idioms, such as Piedmontese, Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Venetian, Neapolitan, Sicilian who show considerable differences in grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
		Many "dialects of Italy" should thus be considered distinct languages in their own right, and actually are assigned to separate branches on the Romance language family tree by Ethnologue and other academic works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_dialects (883 words)

	Italian Language - ninemsn Encarta
		Italian Language, one of the Romance group of languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages of the Indo-European language family.
		Often considered a language with numerous dialects (many of which are regarded as separate languages), Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion.
		The multiplicity of these languages and dialects and their individual claims upon their native speakers as pure Italian speech presented a peculiar difficulty in the evolution of an accepted form of Italian that would reflect the cultural unity of the entire peninsula.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560079/Italian_Language.html (793 words)

	Italian Languages and Dialects - Multimedia - ninemsn Encarta
		The complex geographical fragmentation of the Italian languages and dialects is represented simply in this map, in which only the larger families are shown.
		North of this boundary are found dialects with phonetic and morphological features that can be traced back to the languages spoken in pre-Roman times—particularly from the Celtic family—until, at the end of the political and cultural supremacy of Latin, they were greatly influenced by the transalpine languages (French and Provençal in particular).
		South of the line are the remaining languages and dialects, which vary enormously among themselves but have remained more like the language of origin, Latin.
	au.encarta.msn.com /media_102626960_761560079_-1_1/Italian_Languages_and_Dialects.html (179 words)

	Italian
		Italian, like the other Romance languages, is a descendant of Vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their rule.
		Italian nouns and adjectives are marked for gender (feminine and masculine), and number (singular and plural).
		Italian vocabulary is mainly derived from Latin with numerous borrowings from Greek, French, German and English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january/Italian.html (536 words)

	Italian language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Italian is further used as a language of commerce in the former Italian colonies of Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, and Tunisia.
		Italian is currently spoken by some 66 million people, mostly in peninsular Italy, but with some spillover in the Ticino canton of Switzerland; in the southeastern border regions of France; and in small communities in Slovenia and Croatia.
		Dialects of Italian are also spoken, but not as official languages, in Corsica and in overseas immigrant communities in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/italian.htm (860 words)

	Italian language. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Northern Italian dialects are the Gallo-Italian—including Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, and Emilian—and Venetian.
		The Rhaeto-Romance forms, similar to the dialects of northern Italy, are spoken in the border region between Italy and Switzerland.
		A.D. The idiom of Florence, one of the Tuscan dialects of Italian, became dominant from the end of the 13th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/it/ItalLan.html (403 words)

	History of the Italian Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Italian, considered the closest living language to Latin, is spoken in many dialects, all of which are bastardized spin-offs from Latin colloquialism.
		Italian is the native language throughout the Italian peninsula, Sicily, northern Sardinia and Corsica in the south and to the north throughout southern Switzerland (in the region called Ticino in Italian and Tessin in German), and in the region of Istria, along the northeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea.
		The very distinct southern dialects, such as Pugliese, Lucano, Maruggese, Salentino and Calabrese are as difficult to understand to the northern Italians as the dialects spoken on the islands of Sicily, Siciliano, and the islands of Sardinia, Sardo and Corsica, Corso.
	www.arcaini.com /ITALY/ItalianLanguage/ItalianLanguage.htm (399 words)

	Pagina1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dialect is usually learned alongside Italian from the cradle and this should be proof enough that a child can safely learn more languages well before the school age.
		Italian languages, however, have been less influenced by the standard since they are morphologically and phonologically distant from the romance family of Italian dialects which contributed to the birth of Italian.
		Like the Italian dialects, such languages are unfortunately doomed to extinction unless more is done to preserve them, since they are less and less spoken by younger generations who, for different reasons (work, the media, traveling...) tend to be more exposed to Italian.
	pagina1.altervista.org /historyaitalian11.htm (2016 words)

	ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Italian art experienced a revival in the 18th century, particularly in the latter half with the spread of the Enlightenment.
		Italian culture and literature experienced a revival in the second half of the 18th century as a result of the spread of the ideals of the Enlightenment.
		Italian writers felt the need for contact with the rest of European culture and were convinced that this was the only way Italy could play any role in the progress of civilization.
	www.crs4.it /Letteratura/Misc/Storia.html (5711 words)

	General Overview of the Italian Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Italian dialects developed from Vulgar Latin, the colloquial language of the late Roman empire.
		For most Italians their first contact with the standard language comes in primary school, in which until recently it was the only dialect used; standard Italian is virtually the only dialect of culture in modern Italy, and with immigration from the south to the industrial north it is becoming increasingly the language of intercommunication.
		Italian grammar is like that of the other Western Romance languages, especially similar to the modern French grammar.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Italian/Italian.html (1065 words)

	AllRefer.com - Italian language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Italian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages).
		Historically, Italian is a daughter language of Latin (see Latin language).
		Italian is often described both as the language of art and music and as the language best suited to singing.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/ItalLan.html (539 words)

	Gil Fagiani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Millions of Italian Americans trace their ancestry to Southern Italy but until the publication of this pioneering work, there has been nothing available in the United States that could serve as a general introduction to the popular languages and literatures of the actual places from which their families originated.
		Dialects are not derived from Italian, nor are they varieties or adaptions of the national language.
		While most Italian Americans are unaware that dialects have a written literary tradition, in the last 20 years there has been, what can only be described as a phenomenal surge of interest among poets to make dialect the artistic language of choice.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol9_2Fagiani.htm (1310 words)

	Italian Rap \| Potere alla Parola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Italian rappers deliver their politicized rhymes in Genovese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, and Venetian in a conscious search for a popular voice rooted in place and the everyday lives of working people.
		Non-standard Italian is a significant social phenomenon in Italy, where speakers from the north are unintelligible from those in south, and where up until recently the inhabitants of some neighboring mountain towns could not understand each other.
		The "dialects" were not confined to the illiterate masses but were used in written forms from the Norman court in Sicliy to Venetian operas.
	www.italianrap.com /intro/parole.html (432 words)

	ITALIAN
		Italian dialects are not mutually intelligible; they are autonomous linguistic systems separated from the standard language both in terms of structure and historical development.
		Regional Italian: regional features at the level of pronunciation and (partially) at the level of the lexicon.
		Regional dialect: a variety of dialect that has been influenced by standard Italian at the level of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon.
	courses.washington.edu /lin100/Italian.htm (229 words)

	Italian language - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		Italian is an official language of Italy, the European Union, San Marino, Switzerland and Vatican City.
		Speaking dialect is unfortunately often shunned upon in Italy as it is a sign of lacking education.
		Dialects are often used in movies to provide comic relief or to produce stereotypes: northern dialects can be connected to greedy merchants; a Roman accent is associated with arrogant, simple-minded bullies; Neapolitan reminds of dishonest, cunning slackers, and, even in Italy, Sicilian is often associated with the mafia.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=Italian_language&redirect=no (2710 words)

	Italian Travel Phrases
		Italian is used in Italy, Vatican City, and San Marino.
		Gizzeria dialect of Italian from the city of Gizzeria in the southern Italian province of Catanzaro
		Modenese dialect of Italian from the city of Spilamberto in the northern Italian province of Modena
	www.travelphrases.info /languages/Italian.htm (78 words)

	Dante Alighieri on the Web
		He’s one of the greatest Italian writer of the XIV century, together with Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca.
		We can say that modern Italian is derived fairly directly from this dialect, even thanks to its use in literature.
		Italian philosopher and theologian, lived in the XIII century, one of the greatest in Scholastic medieval philosophy.
	www.greatdante.net /glossary.html (586 words)

	List of Romance Languages & Dialects with Number of Speakers and Areas of Distribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Pallarese and Ribogorcan dialects are less similar to standard Catalan, speakers have less education, less contact with the standard, and live in high valleys of the Pyrenees.
		Dialects of Bastia, Venaco, Vico, and Sartene have 79% to 89% lexical similarity.
		Cagliaritan is the dialect of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia.
	www.orbilat.com /General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Languages.html (3673 words)

	Ethnologue: Italy
		Speakers are bilingual in Italian and regional Italian dialects in varying degrees; one report says they are highly bilingual.
		The dialect of Val di Fassa is taught in schools.
		Upper valleys of the Italian Piedmont (Val Mairo, Val Varacho, Val d'Esturo, Entraigas, Limoun, Vinai, Pignerol, Sestriero), Guardia Piemonese in Calabria.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Ital.html (1846 words)

	Italian Language
		Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their domination.
		An Italian dialect of the eastern Alps, the Friulian, is spoken in northeastern Venetia.
		The multiplicity of these dialects and their individual claims upon their native speakers, presented a peculiar difficulty in the evolution of an accepted Italian language that would reflect the cultural unity of the entire peninsula.
	www.floria-publications.com /italy/italian_culture/italian_language.html (534 words)

	JUDEO-ITALIAN KINAH
		Italian Jewry has often, and rightfully so, been considered the oldest Jewish community of the Western world, as Jewish presence in Italy has been continuous for over two millennia.
		In all other aspects of daily life, Italian Jews had totally adopted the local customs and/or language(s), feeling more comfortable with the latter-the local regional vernacular with which each community expressed itself-which was, after all, their native tongue.
		Geography and history have therefore divided the Jewish communities—as with the Italian regions—hence preventing the formation of a strong, unified koiné, as in the case of Yiddish and, on a lesser scale, Ladino.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Library/8945/kinah.html (6051 words)

	Italian
		Italian is spoken as a native language by between 55 and 60 million people in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Sardinia and the former Yugoslavia.
		It is also spoken in large immigrant communities in North and South America, North Africa and Australia.
		Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion.
	www.flw.com /languages/italian.htm (75 words)

	Italian Translation Service - English to Italian Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Population includes some of whom are native bilinguals of Italian and regional varieties, and some of whom may use Italian as second language.
		Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is a kind of halfway house between the languages of Southern and northern Italy.
		Of all the Romance languages, Italian is generally considered to be the one most closely resembling Latin in terms of vocabulary, though Romanian is closer to Classical Latin.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/italian_translation.shtml (645 words)

	FIERI Boston - Language
		The "standard" or "grammatical" Italian that you may have learned in school is actually based on the Florentine dialect.
		Florentine has been accepted as the standard Italian since the Renaissance, mainly owing to Florence's tremendous stature as a center of learning and trade at that time.
		Italian dialects include Sardo (Sardinia), Sicilian, Napoletane, Calabrese, Abruzzese, Piemontese, and Ladino (spoken in and around Trieste), and several others.
	www.fieri-boston.org /language.htm (210 words)

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