Central Italian

Central Italian
italiano centrale
Native to Italy
Region Lazio, Umbria, central Marche, the far south of Tuscany, and a small part of Abruzzo
Native speakers
 approx. ~3.000.000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog None
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Central italian[2][3][4][5]

Central Italian (italiano centrale or mediano) is a group of Italo-Dalmatian Romance dialects spoken in central Italy in Lazio, Umbria, central Marche, the far south of Tuscany, and a small part of Abruzzo. The differences between these dialects are slight. They are closely 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:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Star Crazy (June 18, 2011). "ISTAT 2006". ISTAT. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ali, Linguistic atlas of Italy
  3. ↑ (in Italian) Linguistic cartography of Italy by Padova University Archived May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Italian dialects by Pellegrini Archived 2005-11-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ AIS, Sprach-und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz, Zofingen 1928-1940
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