[source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy), __although many mistake these as *Italian dialects* from a linguistic point of view these are proper languages__ which independently developed from Latin, Slavic, Germanic and Greek linguistic roots. Sadly most of them are not recognised as such like for example Sardinian is and are slowly going extinct.
Under the macros listed here there are also a bunch of subcategories, Sicilian for example is itself divided in _western insular sicilian_, _eastern insular sicilian_, _salentino_ (in the Apulia region), _calabrese_ and so on.
When my father was doing its mandatory time in the military (around 1984), he said that it was still common to see people not being able to understand each because dialect/language differences. During the early ‘900 it was even worse, that’s why some battalions were formed by people from the same area at the time.
The Belluno province in northern Veneto does not seem quite right: I would expand the Ladin region, but, mainly, German speakers are not there at all.
Ligurian is also spoken in France (primarly Menton and Nice but in all the Côte-d’Azur) and in Monaco as well.
if Sardinian is excluded, recognized as a language following the Nobel prize awarded to Grazia Deledda, all the others are dialects. Occitan is the French of the southern provinces, still spoken today in the Alpine region between France and Italy, and in a small territory of Calabria where Waldensian faithful persecuted by the Savoys took refuge a few centuries ago.
Thank you OP, I’ve been wanting to see this map posted since the “dialects” post of a couple of days ago.
In northern Tuscany it’s emiliano in the mountains. But near the sea is more of ligure
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[source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy), __although many mistake these as *Italian dialects* from a linguistic point of view these are proper languages__ which independently developed from Latin, Slavic, Germanic and Greek linguistic roots. Sadly most of them are not recognised as such like for example Sardinian is and are slowly going extinct.
Under the macros listed here there are also a bunch of subcategories, Sicilian for example is itself divided in _western insular sicilian_, _eastern insular sicilian_, _salentino_ (in the Apulia region), _calabrese_ and so on.
When my father was doing its mandatory time in the military (around 1984), he said that it was still common to see people not being able to understand each because dialect/language differences. During the early ‘900 it was even worse, that’s why some battalions were formed by people from the same area at the time.
[me, waking up to the fact that in Sardinia they speak Ligure and Catalano](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/037/709/rtertre.jpg)
The Belluno province in northern Veneto does not seem quite right: I would expand the Ladin region, but, mainly, German speakers are not there at all.
Ligurian is also spoken in France (primarly Menton and Nice but in all the Côte-d’Azur) and in Monaco as well.
if Sardinian is excluded, recognized as a language following the Nobel prize awarded to Grazia Deledda, all the others are dialects. Occitan is the French of the southern provinces, still spoken today in the Alpine region between France and Italy, and in a small territory of Calabria where Waldensian faithful persecuted by the Savoys took refuge a few centuries ago.
Thank you OP, I’ve been wanting to see this map posted since the “dialects” post of a couple of days ago.
In northern Tuscany it’s emiliano in the mountains. But near the sea is more of ligure