(documentation NapoletanoCalabreseLanguage EnglishLanguage "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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