Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:
> Most Italian dialects are actually written.
Okay, well anyhow in Latin script, and surely representable.
Here are the ones I left out, evidently in error:
LOMBARD
NEAPOLITAN-CALABRESE
SIL generally uses a "mutually unintelligible" definition
of language, so some dialects have been lumped with
Standard Italian because they are reasonably mutually intelligible
with it.
> Not that it is an issue: all Italians also speak the national language,
Is this now fully true?
> - Several dialects have semi-official status in some areas: Ladin, Friulian,
> Venetian, Sardinian;
Ladin/Friulian and Sardinian are generally considered separate languages
altogether, at least by Romance philologists.
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