Nap - Neapolitan

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The Neapolitan language has many aspects of a language family.

Some 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 and it was introduced only after the unification of Italy.

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 Proper Neapolitan 2 Variations 2.1 Abruzzese (part of Abruzzi) 2.1.1 Abruzzese adriatico (Pescarese) 2.2 Basilicata 2.3 Calabria (only in the North) 2.4 Campania 2.5 Lazio 2.5.1 Marchigiano Meridionale (Ascolano) 2.6 Molisano 2.7 Pugliese (North and centre) 2.7.1 Appulo-barese 2.7.2 Tarantino 2.8 Torrese 3 External information

[edit] Proper Neapolitan

• This is the official version spoken and written. Neapolitan has been written and spoken for centuries and there is wide documentation about it. Rules nowadays are the same, of course some vocabulary needs adaptation to modern times having influences from the various languages spoken in the world.

[edit] Variations

Please note: geographical names are just taken for convenience. This does not imply that the geographical borders of the regions are the same as the language borders. It will be difficult to identify these since the passage from one variation to the other goes bit by bit - so we have "mixed" variations anywhere. Furthermore languages change their location over time - this means that over centuries you will find a different distribution. While these variations have a different writing when you write them phonetically without considering the rules for writing Neapolitan, they all could be written according to the standard version, just like it was for centuries. A bit similar to Italian: you pronounce it differently in the different regions, but all of it is called Italian since the way of writing is the same.

[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:
• Available texts:
• Available songs:
• Code requested:

[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:
• Code requested:

[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