{"id":128672,"date":"2015-11-10T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/the-many-languages-of-italy-or-italian-americans.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:24:38","slug":"the-many-languages-of-italy-or-italian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/the-many-languages-of-italy-or-italian-americans.html","title":{"rendered":"The Many Languages of Italy — or Italian-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of the people who immigrated to Italy came here before efforts to standardize Italian back home — from an era of (like Spain) multiple strong dialects that were difficult to understand one from another.<\/p>\n

Those linguistic roots still survive in the areas of the US where those immigrants came long after they've largely faded out in Italy.<\/p>\n

This is of some personal interest for me because it make me wonder about the Italian that was spoken around me when I was growing up. My mom's family came over in the 1900s-1910s, from the Venice area. Makes me wonder how "standard" their dialect was, and what sort of chat I heard that would sound antiquated in the ears of the people back in the homeland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A lot of the people who immigrated to Italy came here before efforts to standardize Italian back home — from an era of (like Spain) multiple strong dialects that were difficult to understand one from another. 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