How an old Italian dialect compares to standard Italian

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[scaffyman]

Casalvieri dialect has a 'w" sound rather than "v" when it occurs. This us thought to be a Latin remnant. However even within a few km the "w" is pronounced 'v" e g. In Atina or any of the surrounding villages

[DiPaoloPiano]

This is my extended family's dialect--I would be so interested in whatever other resources you've found or created on it. Like most Boomers my parents weren't taught their heritage languages and only know how to swear. I had to learn standard Italian in college in order to get any exposure. But I remember the general sound enough to know that your male friend here sounds so much like my departed aunts and uncles (nonno's siblings, and nonno didn't live long enough to meet me) who came to the US as native speakers!

[kernowforester]

W initial sound in Ciociaro, is closer to classical Latin, i.e. vedi, veni, vici, was actually wedi, weni, wici.

[Caralaza]

Amazing how this dialect retains the original Latin v sound in these words! Does this dialect do that for all v's?

[larzinthelibrary]

Love this video! I am Italian American but my family is Ciociaro. It was considered uneducated to speak in dialect and so my parents always tried to have us learn the "standard" Italian. My father's side of the family speaks mostly dialect, but my mom's side mostly Italian (both of them kind of mix them up a little bit). When I was a little kid, I used to correct my maternal grandmother when she would tell me something in dialect. As a result, my siblings and I can understand Ciociaro but we can't really speak it without effort. I wish they hadn't done this because I wish we could have kept up the dialect too.

[saguntum-iberian-greekkons]

Amazing, its true that the OID (Old Italian Dialect) from south Latium i think still sounds the Authentic Latin, Italian might be similar but is also very different, especially in the Tuscan Variant. In Latin the "V" sounds "W" as the Senior man pronounced it

[italianluvah]

Interesting. Like classical latin and neapolitan mixed

[eliotje]

Thank you Michael, for studying this old dialect!❤

[markantony]

My mother and my maternal grandparents speak this dialect.

[rw]

Why would you repeat the English word in the subtitle of the spoken Italian and Ciociaria? Has no use, better to describe what they are saying

[fitnessealliance]

Non so se è una grande coincidenza o cosa ma questo è il nostro dialetto. Magari YouTube mi avrà sentito parlare al telefono

[xanoveth]

The fact is that the italian "dialects" are in fact all different languages.
Italy has been divided for so long that we had practically no way to communicate with each other. Neapolitan, Sardinian, Sicilian, Venetian, and others are all languages by themselves with their dialects.
Italian was created by starting with the Florentine dialect of Tuscan, no one spoke it until the advent of televisions after ww2, this brought television in the houses of many italians and with it also the language of the government.

[mariagiorgilli]

Love this video. Nello sounds like my parents and their friends from SETTEFRATI, FROSINONE where we all came from.

[spencerchamp]

Good vid, but proof that you shouldnt cut the audio budget

[ChristianJiang]

The standard Italian speaker has some kind of an American accent, especially in the way she pronounces her Ls!

[masterjunky]

The modern dialct of Lazio (region of Rome) is a mix of this ancient Neapolitan-like dialect and Tuscan dialect.

[manuelhurtadobusiness]

"Vaca" (cow), like in spanish.

[lauratiberia]

For the longest time I thought I understood Italian but actually it was the Ciociaro dialect

[-smp-scientificmethodpersp]

Was this version of old Italian used in the medieval era, or is it not that old? Also, I couldn't help but notice that old Italian is more similar to Portuguese, which suggests the relatively to be closer to Latin, the language both of these came from.

[RampageRalph]

These languages are not “dialects“ they are separate languages that evolved from vulgar Latin. Standard Italian evolved from the Tuscan vulgar Latin, and took influences from other language and became what it is today.

When Italy, unified, the government was trying to play, catch up with the rest of the world when it came to nationalism. As a way to make Italians look like “one people”, they made standard Italian, the “official language”, and then as a political move, they dictated that all the other languages spoken in Italy are “dialects”.

I speak Napulitano, not standard Italian. It’s not a “dialect“ it’s a separate language. Saying Napulitano is a dialect of Italian, it’s like saying Portuguese is a dialect of Spanish.