The sound of Romance

[Peyrol]

"Selva" is also used in standard italian, but sounds quite antiquate.

[Ibericus]

Piedmontese sounds a bit like catalan.

[Comte Arnau]

Piedmontese sounds a bit like catalan.

Not without a reason.

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

Some I'd say are not Francesisms, but common words between the French, the Catalans and North Italians.

Yes, in Piedmontese one should distinguish between forms that resemble French because of shared 'gallo-romance' isoglosses, and true Gallicisms, i.e. French loanwords, which are more copious than in other italian dialects (for obvious historical and geographical reasons).

[Foxy]

This is an Abruzzese lullaby:

[YOUTUBE]rOKlT3Aod9w[/YOUTUBE]

[Boudica]

I know a lot of Italian, and a little bit of French.. I've always wanted to learn Portuguese though, it sounds beautiful..

[Peyrol]

Sardinian (two historical song)

Dimonios (with subtitiles)
[YOUTUBE]Wcgt-0zLTlI[/YOUTUBE]

Innu Sardu (also first italian anthem from 1861 to 1871, with subtitles)
[YOUTUBE]DNfRtGxgUNo[/YOUTUBE]

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

pramzan (the dialect of Parma, North Italy):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ibf2VYheM


same dialect, a funny song about some obese sports journalist :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4joj5kuxU

[Kosovo je Sjrbia]

Tradizional music of Abruzzo (Italy)
Interesting to watch the video because the it shows pan Abruzzi people.

[YOUTUBE]TToHw1q50hw[/YOUTUBE]

[Comte Arnau]

pramzan (the dialect of Parma, North Italy):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ibf2VYheM


same dialect, a funny song about some obese sports journalist :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4joj5kuxU

You can embed the videos in the post by just clicking on the YouTube button and adding between the tags the part of the link after the = sign. Much better.