And how long does it take to learn the Italian language if you go to class two days a week, 2 hours per class?
And how was it decided that Italy should be divided into 15 regions?
2006-12-30 17:36:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Dialect in Italy are.... countless! Some are more popular and spoken, but in different cities you may find different vernaculars, even if those cities are relatively close; that's for big cities, but also smaller region ("region" intended as a specific valley or so, not in political/administrative way) have their own dialect; for instance, dialect spoken in Turin is *very* different form the one you can hear if you go in the northeast of Piedmont, 50-80 miles away...
By the way, dialects are way more spoken in the South of Italy, while in the North is more easy to find local accent on regular Italian language.
How many times it takes to learn Italian... I can say it will take 100 hours of good teaching (and work form students :) for a basic knowledge of a language. Then you have to improve by experience.
[oh, and Italy is composed by 20 regions, not 15; and about why, that of course came from historical reasons... in your own Coutry is different...?]
2006-12-31 02:33:02 · answer #1 · answered by Pinguino 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Italian language is from a dialect of Tuscany, what Italy considers dialects are actually real local languages. They are Romance languages which come from Latin, they aren't dialects of the Italian language. Before the unification Italy wasn't a country with a language, a culture, but a land inhabitated by a lot of people very different one another. Sicilians are Italians, so the Lombards are, but when a Sicilian spoke to a Lombard in his language and vice-versa they couldn't get each other. For this reason has been created the Italian language to be the official and standard language of Italy. Unfortunately the Italian politicians don't want to recognize our local languages and consider them only vulgar dialects, but Unesco protects a lot of them: Sicilian, Veneto, Piedmontese, Lombard, Ligurian, Emiliano and Romagnolo, Neapolitan and other southern languages. Unesco studied them and stated they're languages, not dialects of the Italian. To be more specific, the Sicilian is a language and the variant of the Sicilian spoken in Palermo is a dialect of the Sicilian language.
2016-03-17 22:45:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Italian Dialects
2016-10-05 01:41:22 · answer #3 · answered by pendergast 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Italy there are just a few dialects of Italian, you'll find them in Tuscany and in Rome. All other local languages in northern and southern Italy aren't dialects of the Italian. They are romance languages. Even though Italy doesn't want to admit it and for political reasons states they are dialects of Italian, Unesco knows the truth and protects them as minor languages.
All Italians can speak Italian, tourists or foreigners in Italy will not face any kind of issue, Italians will not talk to you in dialect.
2014-12-05 18:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Giuly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how many dialects are there of the Italian language
2015-06-21 09:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting discussion!
2016-08-23 14:03:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know there are Sicilian, Neapolitan, Venetian.
The rest you can find in this link.
http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_country.asp?name=Italy
2006-12-30 17:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by alacc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm curious as well
2016-07-28 07:09:57 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I personally learned three languages on my own, watching foreign
movies, reading books, listening to audio tapes, practice, practice
and practice. Although, the only language I took for a class was
Hebrew.
arrivederci!
shalom!
au revoir!
adios!
aloha!
2006-12-30 19:36:19 · answer #9 · answered by Sabine 6 · 0⤊ 8⤋