Romanesco
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| Romanesco Romanesco - Romano |
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| Spoken in: | Italy (Rome) | |
| Total speakers: | ~2.000.000 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Central Italian Romanesco |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Romanesco is a Romance dialect spoken in Rome. It is one of the Central Italian dialects, and so it is very close to Tuscan and Italian.
There are notable grammatical and idiomatic differences. Rich in expressions and sayings, Romanesco is used informally by most natives of Rome.
[edit] History
[edit] Diffusion
Originally Romanesco was spoken only inside the walls of the city of Rome, while the little towns sorrounding the Eternal city had their own dialects; nowadays these dialects have almost disappeared and they have been replaced with a kind of Romanesco, which therefore is now spoken in an area larger than the original one.
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In fact today, Romanesco can be considered more of a regional idiom than a true language or dialect. Classical Romanesco, that made popular by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, is in the process of disappearing. Replacing it is a more vulgar parlance called "Romanaccio." External forces such as immigration and the dominance of Italian are playing a role in the transformation.
Romano Proper, spoken in the city of Rome and the immediate surrounding areas, is somewhat different from the rest of the Romanesco dialects.
Ma nun c'è lingua come la romana
Pe' dì una cosa co' ttanto divario
Che ppare un magazzino de dogana.
"Le lingue der monno"
- G.G. Belli
