Nap - Neapolitan

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The Neapolitan language has many aspects of a language family.

Many people see having their dialect called "Neapolitan" as undesirable. They then refer to their language as an Italian dialect which is historically problematic as Italian is based on Florentine.

The Neapolitan language is in its description also quite fragmented. There are differences among the tongues that are included under the name of the Neapolitan language. The question here is to determine how far the variation goes and to see if there is indeed sufficient range to make Neapolitan a language family and, if so, how then to divide Neapolitan into seperate languages. Alternatively, Neapolitan may indeed be found to be a single language, in which case there is a need for distinctions to be made between the disperate dialects.

Contents 1 Variations 1.1 Abruzzese (part of Abruzzi) 1.1.1 Abruzzese adriatico (Pescarese) 1.2 Basilicata 1.3 Calabria (only in the North) 1.4 Campania 1.5 Lazio 1.5.1 Marchigiano Meridionale (Ascolano) 1.6 Molisano 1.7 Pugliese (North and centre) 1.7.1 Appulo-barese 1.7.2 Tarantino 1.8 Torrese 2 External information

[edit] Variations

[edit] Abruzzese (part of Abruzzi)

• classification: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetto_abruzzese

[edit] Abruzzese adriatico (Pescarese)

• Swadesh list: http://www.wiktionaryz.org/swadesh_list_for_nap
• List of Wenker sentences:
• Information about literature:
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• Available songs:
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[edit] Basilicata

[edit] Calabria (only in the North)

[edit] Campania

There are some variations, that differ quite a bit from proper Napolitan.

[edit] Lazio

Spoken in the cities of Gaeta, Cassino, Sora, Liri

[edit] Marchigiano Meridionale (Ascolano)

• Swadesh list: http://www.wiktionaryz.org/swadesh_list_for_nap
• Available texts: http://www.wikiliva.info

[edit] Molisano

Though I am not sure how much the spoken variation in Molise differs from the one in Abruzzo.

[edit] Pugliese (North and centre)

[edit] Appulo-barese

• Swadesh list: http://www.wiktionaryz.org/swadesh_list_for_nap
• List of Wenker sentences:
• Information about literature:
• Available texts:
• Available songs:
• Code requested:

[edit] Tarantino

• Swadesh list:
• List of Wenker sentences:
• Information about literature:
• Available texts:
• Available songs:
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[edit] Torrese

Spoken in Naples having a vowel shift and real difference to proper Neapolitan

[edit] External information

• Ethnologue
• Swadesh list on OmegaWiki for Neapolitan