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NapoletanoCalabreseLanguage
The NapoletanoCalabreseLanguage is an ItaloDalmatianLanguage of Italy. SIL code: NPL. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: 7,047,399 (1976). Region: Campania and Calabria provinces, southern Italy. Alternate names: NEAPOLITAN-CALABRESE. Dialects: NAPOLETANO (NEAPOLITAN, TIRRENIC), NORTHERN CALABRESE-LUCANO (LUCANIAN, BASILICATAN). Comments: Limited inherent intelligibility with Standard Italian. Neapolitan and Calabrese are reported to be very different from each other. Southern Calabrian is reported to be a dialect of Sicilian. Bilingualism in Italian. Vigorous. Not endangered. A large literature. It might be in Southern Romance instead of Italo-Western. Investigation needed: intelligibility with Neapolitan, Southern Calabrian with Sicilian. Bible portions 1861-1862.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 entit�The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 langage humainThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ItalicLanguageAn ItalicLanguage is any of 48 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ItaloDalmatianRomanceLanguageOf the 36 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguages, six of these are classified as an ItaloDalmatianRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguageOf the 47 RomanceLanguages, 38 of these are classified as an ItaloWesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 langageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 expression linguistiqueThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 langage naturelThe subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
 physiqueAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 RomanceLanguageOf the 48 ItalicLanguages, 47 of these are classified as a RomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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