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  2. Tuscan dialect - Wikipedia

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    Tuscan is a dialect complex composed of many local variants, with minor differences among them. The main subdivisions are between Northern Tuscan dialects, the Southern Tuscan dialects, and Corsican. The Northern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west):

  3. Florentine dialect - Wikipedia

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    A received pedagogical variant derived from it historically, once called la pronuncia fiorentina emendata (literally, 'the amended Florentine pronunciation'), was officially prescribed as the national language of the Kingdom of Italy, when it was established in 1861. It is the most widely spoken of the Tuscan dialects. [1]

  4. Celso Cittadini - Wikipedia

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    Celso Cittadini (1 April 1553 – 29 March 1627) was an Italian grammarian and philologist.. He was the author of important works in which he demonstrated the emergence of Romance languages from Vulgar Latin and the also defined phonetic laws that highlight the correlation between certain Latin vowels and their equivalents in Tuscan.

  5. Regional Italian - Wikipedia

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    Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional [note 1] variety of the Italian language.. Such vernacular varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the local non-immigrant languages of Italy [note 2] that predate the national tongue or any regional variety thereof.

  6. Italo-Western languages - Wikipedia

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    Tuscan-Corsican: group of dialects spoken in the Italian region of Tuscany, and the French island of Corsica. Northern Tuscan dialects: Florentine is spoken in the city of Florence, and was the basis for Standard Italian. Other dialects: Pistoiese; Pesciatino or Valdinievolese; Lucchese; Versiliese; Viareggino; Pisano-Livornese.

  7. Corsican language - Wikipedia

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    Corsican (corsu, pronounced, or lingua corsa, pronounced [ˈliŋɡwa ˈɡorsa]) is a Romance language consisting of the continuum of the Tuscan Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territory of France, and in the northern regions of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy.

  8. How To Say Foreign-Language Words Without Sounding Like an ...

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    Allow me to introduce you to the Bruschetta Method. You sit down at the Italian joint, order your negroni, and grab the menu off the red-and-white gingham tablecloth in front of you.

  9. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]