Central Italian
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| Italiano centrale | ||
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| Spoken in: |  Italy |
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| Region: | Lazio and east | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 5 million | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italiano centrale |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | it | |
| ISO 639-2: | ita | |
| ISO 639-3: | ita – Italian
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Italiano centrale is a group of Italo-Western Romance dialects spoken in Lazio, Umbria, central Marche, the far south of Tuscany and a small part of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The differences between these dialects are slight, they are closly related to Tuscan and all are mutually intelligible with each other as well as with standard Italian. They are the Italian dialects not affected by substrata.
The following dialects are part of Central Italian:
- Marchigiano (central part of Marche)
- Umbrian dialects (Umbria)
- Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano (L'Aquila and Province of Rieti)
- Tuscia dialect (Tuscia, northern part of Latium)
- Romanesco (Rome)
- Giudeo-Romanesco
- Castelli Romani dialect (Castelli Romani)
- Ciociaro (Ciociaria, southern part of Latium)
[edit] References
- ^ Ali, Linguistic atlas of Italy
- ^ Linguistic cartography of Italy by Padova University
- ^ Italiand dialects by Pellegrini
- ^ AIS, Sprach-und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz, Zofingen 1928-1940
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