What always amazed me a lot about Italy are the differences between different cities and regions. One of the most explicit manifestations of it (of course after typical food):) are languages or dialects. Each region has its own dialect which sometimes is very different from standard Italian. My Italian is not yet (and most probably will never be) good enough to understand differences between all the dialects, but in a way I can distinguish couple of main ones. My lovely team mates keep on saying that I speak Italian with Napoletan accent, which I totally refuse to believe:)
Apart from 12 minority languages that are officially recognized (Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Franco-Provencal, French, Friulian, German, Greek, Ladin, Occitan, Sardinian, and Slovene). Note that Catalan, Friulian, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian are already officially recognized, there are are a lot of others that are not officially recognized by Italian government, but are recognized by other international organizations.... "Of these languages, many have been recognised by international bodies , most notably by UNESCO as reported in the Red Book of Endangered Languages. These are: Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Lombard, Neapoletan, Piedmontese, Sicilian, and Venetian"
Anyways, have a look at the map below to see all variety of Italian dialects:)
2 comments:
cool, very interesting topic. Masha, where do they speak catalan?
oh masha was reading ur post, and suddenly remind us 1 year ago, can not believe it's already 1 year passed, u will miss the countrythat 1 year u couldn't imagine what to expect :))
tanya
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