Italian Dialects - List of Languages of Italy

List of Languages of Italy

See also: Languages of Italy

Dialect areas closest to Standard Italian in features:

  • Tuscan dialect — the base of modern Standard Italian, despite many differences
  • Corsican — generally considered to be related to Italian, and particularly to the dialects of Tuscany
  • Gallurese and Sassarese (Northern Sardinia)
  • Central Italian dialects

Regional variants of the Italian language influenced by regional languages:

  • influence of Piedmontese language (Piedmont)
  • influence of Franco-Provençal language (Valle d'Aosta, Celle di San Vito in Apulia)
  • influence of Ladin language (Trentino, South Tyrol, Province of Belluno)
  • influence of Western Lombard (Western Lombardy, Eastern Piedmont, Ticino and Grisons) and intermediate Western-Eastern Lombard dialects
  • influence of Eastern Lombard (Eastern Lombardy, Western Trentino)
  • influence of the Milanese variety of Italian — Western Lombard has been argued to also have an "indirect" influence on the development of a modern standard Italian, as the regional Italian spoken in Milan has become increasingly important in the Italian sociolinguistic scenario due to the strong socio-economic position of Milan. In this case, however, the linguistic influence comes fom the Italian spoken in Milan, not from Milanese -hence from the Milanese dialect of Italian, as opposed to the Milanese dialect of Western Lombard- although the two are necessarily related, for the latter has served as substrate to the development of the former.
  • influence of Venetian language (Veneto, Eastern Trentino, Julian March)
  • influence of Emiliano-Romagnolo language (Emilia-Romagna, Northern Marche, Southern Lombardy)
  • influence of Ligurian language (Liguria, Southern Piedmont, Islands of Sulcis)
  • influence of Sardinian language (Central and Southern Sardinia)
  • influence of Catalan language (Alghero in Sardinia)
  • influence of Friulian language (Friuli)
  • influence of Neapolitan language in Southern Italian (Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Northern Apulia, Northern Calabria, Basilicata)
  • influence of Sicilian language (Sicily, Southern Calabria, Southern Apulia)

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