Uses of local languages in Italy - The map

[Peyrol]

Percentages of use of local languages in Italy.

Heavy declining for some of them (piedmontese, lombard, ligurian, emilian, rumagnol), but the North-East is still a stronghold, as Sardinia and part of the south.

[Styrian Mujo]

So Tuscany is the most Italian region?

[Peyrol]

So Tuscany is the most Italian region?

Yes and for a precise reason: italian language is just tuscan language...the tuscan spoken in the XII-XIV centuries, precisely.

It was chosen as national language instead of the creation of a new language based on all the languages of the peninsula.

[alfieb]

I feel badly for the Galloromance languages of the Northwest.

[Peyrol]

I feel badly for the Galloromance languages of the Northwest.

Me too for obvious reason, but it was a ''sentenza scritta'' with the massime southern italian and foreigner immigration into Piedmont and Lombardy...

[alfieb]

Me too for obvious reason, but it was a ''sentenza scritta'' with the massime southern italian and foreigner immigration into Piedmont and Lombardy...

The unseen cost of being wealthy.

[Peyrol]

The unseen cost of being wealthy.

Yes.
Just take piedmontèis...100 years ago was the only and only language of the Savoyarde Court, they were used to speak and talk to each others in piedmontèis (or in french).

The same king Victor Emmanuel II, when firstly entered in Rome, said to Camillo Cavour, in piedmontèis, about the city: ''Finalmént aj suma, ma al ma piàs nèn...a simea a misòn de crìn'' (we, finally we're here...but i don't like this city...it remind me a pigsty''


The same, IMHO, would have happened to sicilian if the island would have remained with the independent Two Sicilies...neapolitan would haved replaced the language.

[alfieb]

The same, IMHO, would have happened to sicilian if the island would have remained with the independent Two Sicilies...neapolitan would haved replaced the language.

Nah. The Sicilians were ruled from foreign soil since the rise of Charles d'Anjou. When the king spoke French, the Sicilians spoke Sicilian. When the king spoke Catalan, Castilian, German, etc. etc. he was a foreigner and didn't live in Sicily and it made no difference. Same with Neapolitan kings.

Of course, during the period when Napoleon's relatives ruled Naples, the Bourbons were stuck in Palermo for several years, but that was a temporary thing.

[Smaug]

Veneto is still a stronghold, I am proud of my people.

[Peyrol]

Veneto is still a stronghold, I am proud of my people.

Yeah it is.

There is a recent trend on venetic nationalism and the language isn't in danger of extinction.