Interesting how it is regions in the extreme south, northeast and northwest that seem to have preserved the use of local dialects/languages the best. Is it because these regions have been the most isolated over the years?
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Interesting how it is regions in the extreme south, northeast and northwest that seem to have preserved the use of local dialects/languages the best. Is it because these regions have been the most isolated over the years?
Italia je Tuscany
Venetian is the only language of Italy that *could* have an opportunity to evolve as a separate culture language.
Why did Dutch (basically a Low-German dialect), Portuguese and Catalan (Iberian dialects that should logically have been absorbed by Castilian) assert themselves as full-fledged literary and political languages?
Because they were based on influential maritime cultures that could therefore evolve independently from the continental areas they were linked too, and were able to project themselves overseas. At some point they ruled the waves.
This was just the case for the Venetian Republic.
But from the moment scholars in Bologna had surrendered to Florentine supremacy, the Venetians couldn't but join the bandwaggon.
I have not the answer. Surely Calabria and Sicily were much more isolated than Central-North Italy, but Venice and Naples were important cultural centers just like Florence, Bologna, Milan, Genoa, Rome ... After the fall of Ancient Rome, Italy has long been a polycentric country, a city-state country.
Yes, it's surely one of the reasons. All the people in Italy, even the Tuscans that are famous in Italy for their "campanilismo" (parochialism), they identify themselves with their home region before Italy. Probably the people that are starting to identify with Italy are the ones that are of mixed regional ancestry, especially the North-South mix.
So, Arrigo Petacco (a famous historian) was wrong and wrote a bullshit in a book, since V.E. II died in 1878 and not in 1861 as you wrote.
The man wasn't Cavour btw, that's a mistake of mine, but the general Cialdini.
Standard italians as spoken language is almost artificial, only 2% of the population in 1861 was able to speak it.
Written standardizations are another thing...even Vatican used latin for diplomatic exchanges and for public proclamas up to 1963.
I think you have to search for his mail and tell him this.
I agree. I think that Veneti weren't able so far to evolve as a separated culture language because the fish has been lacking the head. I mean, Venice, undoubtedly the center of cultural identity of Veneto (and formerly also the economic and political center) has become in the last century a harmless and beautiful city full of tourists, and nothing more. Instead, Barcelona is still the engine of Catalonia.