Thank you, Carmine, for your response. What you see on the site is what usually appears when a domain is for sale. Do you have anything left from them? Saved...
That's just sad. I guess Italians in Italy are different then the Italians in America that way. I always think of my great grandmother who got upset with...
I'm not any liguistic expert but I don't think the Italian that is officialy spoken is not necessarily high Italian. The way I understood it, it's just another...
The official (i.e. what they tell you in school) definition of "Italian" is "Tuscan spoken by a Roman" because, my friends, Tuscan too is a dialect with the...
I'm not one to talk. I can't even speak English coming from Brooklyn NY. I even think after a few generations the Bklyn Italian we spoke changed. I noticed a...
Three thingies ... at least I'll try ... The Accademia Napulitana, as it seems, does not exist anymore. I tried to contact them time ago, but even then there...
I agree with Billy(?) in that case. Italians in America are more interested and more active in using there local languages or dialects. And I think this is not...
Well, you got the meaning of social linguistics in a sentence! the minority languages are precisely a form of archeology, each word indicating the peoples that...
I forgot to mention: strange enough in Salerno I find plenty of books in Neapolitan (well for now I have all that is offered, but hopefully they will offer...
Yeah I have noticed that too...about that C turns to G, and T to D and so forth. I have read though in other italian books that make references to Italian...
I understand what your saying HighItalian but technically it really isn't. Like High German..vs German. A high Language example in English is more like...
Really where in Basilicata? My family is Lucano too... I'm from Albany, but my uncle and my cousins lived in Bensonhurst until recently... The C -> G...
Hello Carmine, I have also heared that abbascio came via Catalan baix. What do you think about this? It would explain the the sh sound, but the initial a is...
Hello Andi, I think it is difficult to say, but it is true that Aragonese were Catalans rather than Castilians, so it might well be (indeed many people find...
It's a really small town and very old. The name is Senise..the dialect is Senisie or something like that. I'm no longer in Bklyn but I lived near Bensonhurst...
Senise, and Senisese, if I recall correctly senisese has some characteristics that makes it closer to Calabrian than to the rest of Basilicata's varieties (and...
You got it...once you get those peperoncini in your blood your hooked...and yes they deep fry the peperoni that's why you get the cruschi...crunch.Lol I grow...
Hi, Elia, As a French person , this is how I pronounce Saint Exupery (according to IPA : International Phonetic Alphabet ) : The transcription was made with...
Yeah, We're from Val d'Agri, I think the biggest town around is Moliterno... we have a lot of similarities with Calabrese, like saying jidd' and jedd' for her...
Few days ago on reading a modern Neapolitan dictionary,whose author I skip, I have found the well known word "cppa" preposition or adverb that means "on,...
Hello, I think there should be something more recent around, for instance the ones by D'Ascoli. D'Ascoli however reports the same etimology, from iItalian...
Hello Carmine, Be careful the Neapolitan word "cppa" is very near to German words Kopf or Kuppe wheter for writing or for meanig, on the contrary "cpa"...
