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    Default Which southern italian language/dialect is more musical?

    For me the vote goes to lucanian dialect of neapolitan languages.









    The least musical is calabrese dialect of sicilian language. Definitely.

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    Probabily Neapolitan

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    Yep neapolitan in all his variants.

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    neapolitan

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    Italian itself is musical as language compared to Others.

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    I also find Neapolitan more musical but it could well be just due to being more used to listen to it in songs, as there are samples from the canzone napoletana which are real masterpieces. Maruzzella, Torna a Surriento, 'O Sole Mio, Guaglione...
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    Neapolitan.

    Calabrese is VERY flat/dry. They sound, in intonation, similar to Greek.
    Sicilians differ by region.. people in Palermo are more sing-songy, but people in Enna, Messina, and Catania sound like Calabrese.

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    Well, if we include the Italian heel in the Sicilian group, then I also find tarantellas quite musical, specially pizzicas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Neapolitan.

    Calabrese is VERY flat/dry. They sound, in intonation, similar to Greek.
    Sicilians differ by region.. people in Palermo are more sing-songy, but people in Enna, Messina, and Catania sound like Calabrese.
    Calbrese is filled with hellenism, jus as lucanian.
    Lucanian (the song i posted) is just an archaic version of neapolitan, with modern hellenisms.

    An interesting fact is that lucanian is the only and only one of the romance languages who retain the word ''cras'' for ''tomorrow'' (in english, this word is only recognizable in the word ''procrastinate'')

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peyrol View Post
    Calbrese is filled with hellenism, jus as lucanian.
    Lucanian (the song i posted) is just an archaic version of neapolitan, with modern hellenisms.
    I have not heard Lucanians speak but I know that I hear little difference between the Griko accent and the Calabrese dialect of Sicilian.

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