ITALIAN & NEAPOLITAN LANGUAGES

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Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 85 million people. It is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia).

Neapolitan is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of mainland Southern Italy (except for southern Calabria and southern Apulia), and spoken in a small part of Central Italy (the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche).

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[adnyc]

This probably explains a lot of the non-standard pronunciations of Italian terms heard among Italian-Americans in the Northeast, as shown on “The Sopranos” - eg mozzarella -> “muzzadell, ” manicotti -> “manigott, ” sfogliatelle -> “shfuyadell”

[GigaRoman]

Thanks for this lesson. As an Italian who lives close to Naples my "Neapolitan" dialect became a mix of roman, lombard and apulian and TRUE Neapolitan, so I needed to hear the sounds again

[georgegkoumas]

Lmao in Greece we have a fight between the North and the South on what is "souvlaki" called and here North and South Italy speak different languages

[ivanbarbosa]

In Portugal the articles a and o are the same as neapolitan.Some similar words are foot, finger, hand.This is amazing, in Capo Verde portuguese former colony we say teneva (had) but not in Portugal where we say tinha. As a portuguese speaker it is easier sometimes for me to understand written Neapolitan!!!But spoken it's incomprehensible unlike Italian

[Feelbetter__]

1.Adoro imparare l'italiano, dal TAGIKISTAN
2. I love to learn Italian from TAJIKISTAN 🇹🇯❤️🇮🇹

[sonnysonny]

As Neapolitan there are several errors of translation.
Cinco not cinque!
Translations seem influenced by Italian but not exact because:
1:22 crisce instead grigij
1:46 gguancie doesn't exist but is "viso"
2:15 guveto instead gomito, caveja not caviglia, pòllece not pollice, 'e ddet is a plural of 'o rrit, puzo not pols, vraçe not bbraccij.
2:43 Revieço NOT Scricciolo.
PS: If you want a revision I offer as volunteer, thanks!

[sheikgames]

Fun fact: in portoghese brasiliano la parola "criatura" è usata come un modo carino di chiamare i figli.

[jaycorwin]

It's interesting. I don't speak Italian but I can understand quite a bit (similarity to Spanish). Neapolitan is a little harder to understand. Maybe with a few weeks of contact and learning a few key words it would be easier. The rhythm of Neapolitan is very beautiful though, melodic, I guess depending on who's speaking.

[Spellmeister]

Next can we do Corsican and Italian side by side

[joshuabradshaw]

Interesting how Neapolitan often silences ending vowels like French.

[MimiLévesque]

The Italian speaker has a charming voice🤭😍

[Enno]

Now, i understand where the Italian-American accent comes from.

[Anthony]

The Neapolitan grammatical words O' and A' are similar to Portuguese.

[RS-rzxj]

Oh, what to do! I've studied west Asian languages and now I'd like to try Italian. My mother spoke Napolitan. Do I study classical Italian, or the dialect of my mother! I recognize the sound. I love it.

[CinCee-]

How close in similarity are Napulitano & Sicilian?

EDIT: So I just read up & watched some more videos on the "dialects" & they're really not dialects of "Italian" as Italian is really the Tuscan language. Napulitanu & Sicilianu have derived from Latin NOT the Tuscan language (which also derived from latin). So they really are seperate but similar languages to todays standard Italian. So most of our Grandparents/Great Grandparents never really spoke what is todays standard Italian. They spoke diferent but related languages to what is todays standard Italian. I wish my Grandma was still alive so I could talk about this w/ her

[yiftachmeged]

Neopolitaen is like a Portuguese man trying to speak italian

[sans_hw]

Compared to Italian, Neapolitan sounds more like french, some words being pronounced exactly the same like sett/sept for 7

[SinilkMudilaSama]

Italian is a modified florentine or like florentine says: " italian is florentine with linguistics, grammar and fonetics changed, amended".
Florentine is the father idion, the father figure to italian, Dante was florentine and creator of italian.

[safirpewdiepie]

The Neopolitan guy sounds incredibly Norwegian

[ntinos]

Neapolitan sounds like Portuguese a bit..