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Dialects of Italy / Dialetti italiani

Many different Italian dialects were spoken in Italy a few hundred years ago. Some survive and are still spoken today. The "dialect" of Tuscany has evolved, with some changes, into the national language of Italy. In researching your Italian Family Tree you may find records written in the local dialect of your ancestors. Most dialects of Italy have been recorded and archived in various types of Italian Dictionaries but not many are available online via the Internet. This is a partial list only, if you find your ancestors "Italian Dialect" Dictionary Online, send me the link and I will add it to the Dialects of Italy links below in hopes that it will aid you and other researchers to better understand your Italian Ancestor's Archives. At the end you will find links for Italian for Beginners and Italian Proverbs, which you can use to teach yourself the standard Italian used in most of Italy

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Dialects of Italy / Dialetti italiani

The Languages of Ancient Italy - A compendium of resources on the languages spoken in Italy prior to the Roman Conquest.
The Dialects of Italian - Maps and descriptions of the major Italian dialect regions. Also contains a summary of the major characteristics of urban dialects from Milan to Naples by Claudio Salvucci and Anthony Schiavo.
The Languages of Italy - find out what languages they speak in Italy. "The number of languages listed for Italy is 33. Of those, all are living languages"
Italian Language (Italiano) - Map showing the Languages of Italy and more.
Languages of Italy - from Wikipedia
The Italian Language - from Encyclopedia.com
Indice delle lingue e dei dialetti citati - Concise index of the major languages and dialects of Italy by Giovanni Flechia - Università di Torino 1872-73
Italian Dialect Poetry by Luigi Bonaffini - dedicated to the great tradition of Italian Dialect Poetry, which is presently undergoing a huge revival. Includes sound clips of many of the Regional Dialects of Italy.
Dizionario dei dialetti d'Italia - In Italian covers a variety of areas in Calabria, Como, Cozenza, Latina, Lecce, Pescara, Salerno, Siracusa, Vercelli and more added periodically.
The Lords Prayer - in Latin, Ligurian, Milanese, Piedmontese, Venetan and others in the Gallo-Romance Subgroup.
Minority languages in Italy - from ask Oxford.
Dizionario di dialetto aquilano - includes popular expressions
Vocabolario Dialettale degli Alti Bruzii - edited by Luigi Paternostro
Il dialetto Lucano / Dialect of Basilicata - Basilicata is also still known as Lucania, which is the original name for the Region; from Gingen Italia.
IL DIALETTO CALABRESE
Poesia Dialettale Calabrese - how it is said in Calabria includes proverbs by Achille Curcio
Poesie Calabresi - Achille Curcio - from Calabriaonline/
Calabrese Verbs - 330 verbs cross-referenced between English, Italian, Catanzarese & Cosentino
Friulian in Italy - second largest minority language in Italy. (spelling)
Genoese WebSite - written totally in the dialect of Genova.
Genovese - Italiano
Il Vocabolario Grìco-Italiano
Dialetto di Lecce - Dialetto leccese

Il dialetto milanese italiano by meneghino - from Lombardy, history, vocabulary, verbs, expressions and more.

Dizionario Italiano-Napoletano - Italian to Napoletano Translations.

Vocabolario italiano-napoletano di Napoletanita' - Click on "Vocabolario" by Umberto de Fabio

Neapolitan gestures - language of the hands typical in the Neapolitan area although some of them are present in all Southern Italy.

Occitan in Italy - found mainly in fifteen alpine valleys in the Piedmontese provinces of Torino & Cuneo but also in the regions of Liguria & Calabria (Guardia Piemontese, in the province of Cosenza).

Piemontese Web Site - totally written in dialect.

Piccolo Vocabolario Piemontese - Italiano

Roman Dialect, An Introduction - includes a grammar, a glossary, a list of idiomatic expressions, and other features very well organized & presented by Andrea Pollett

Roman dialect literature - (mostly poetry), with a parallel translation from Virtual Roma.

Romanaccio for Beginners - teachers admitting that knowing some "romanesco" if in Roma can be useful.

Dizionario Romanesco -

Romansh language - Romance language of the Rhaetian group spoken in northern Italy and Switzerland. Encyclopædia Britannica Article

Dizionario Romagnolo -

Dizionario generale Santostefanese -

Sardinian Language - includes Ditzionàriu Basilare de sa Limba Sarda

Dizionario sardo-italiano-inglese -

Il dialetto di Lizzano - from the Province of Taranto in Sicily.

The Sicilian Dialect - is comprised of words from the Arabic, Greek and Italian languages

The Sicilian Language course - from il Siciliano

Dizionario Siciliano - Italiano - Sicilian to Italian.

LINGUA SICILIANA: Siciliano Lingua Viva - Tutte le informazioni possibili e immaginabili sulla Lingua Siciliana: origini, storia, evoluzione, grammatica, fonologia, diffusione, vocabolari by Giusi La Tona

Sicilian Language Course / Lingua Siciliana - Sicilian Language online

Dialect of Trieste - Il Dialetto Triestino

Dizionario Triestino - Parole del dialetto triestino che stiamo dimenticando

Venetian & Venet - clearly of Latin origin, its vocabulary is rich of germanic-origin words. Includes a dictionary with audio.

Italian Language for Beginners - learn Italian at home for FREE

Teach Yourself Italian - use the Internet to Learn Standard Italian. Great Self-teaching site for the Italian Language by Andrea Pollett of Italy.
OGGI E DOMANI Italian Lanuage Course for the Internet - many audio clips and more.
Italian for Beginners - Free Internet online instruction. Lots of ads but ignore and focus on the audio clips to help you teach yourself. From Michael San Filippo
Little Explorers - English-Italian Picture Dictionary
The Italian Electronic Classroom
You too can learn Italian! by Lucio Chiappetti
BBC "Italian Steps" - introduction to basic pronunciation, guess the words, build sentences, speak & write
Cyber Italian - Alphabet and Pronunciation -Move the mouse over each picture to listen to the sound of the letter and of the word starting with that letter.

Italian Proverbs

Italian Proverbs - from WikiQuote
Italiani Proverbi / Italian Proverbs - from Italiansrus by Anthony Parente
Italian Proverbs - Italian sayings, adages, mottos, epigrams, and aphorisms
Italian proverbs and folk sayings (in English and Italian) - click on folk sayings
Provérbios Italianos -

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