- Central Italian
language
name=Italiano centrale
states=flag|Italy
region=Lazio and east
speakers=approx. 5 million
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Italic
fam3=Romance
fam4=Italo-Western
fam5=Italo-Dalmatian
fam6=Italian
iso1=it|iso2=ita|lc1=ita|ld1=Italian|ll1=Italian language|notice=nonoticeItaliano centrale is a group of Italo-Western Romance dialects spoken in
Lazio ,Umbria , centralMarche , the far south ofTuscany and a small part ofAbruzzo , in centralItaly . The differences between these dialects are slight, they are closly related to Tuscan and all are mutually intelligible with each other as well as with standard Italian. They are theItalian dialects not affected by substrata.The following dialects are part of Central Italian:
* Marchigiano (central part ofMarche )
* Umbrian dialects (Umbria )
* Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano (L'Aquila andProvince of Rieti )
* Tuscia dialect (Tuscia , northern part ofLatium )
*Romanesco (Rome )
**Giudeo-Romanesco
* Castelli Romani dialect (Castelli Romani )
* Ciociaro (Ciociaria , southern part ofLatium )References
External links
* [http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/lingua/bruni/mappe/mappe/f_dialetti.htm Pellegrini's map]
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