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Originally Posted by gorbelly
So you're saying because your particular dialect didn't drop vowels, none do?
It's not just some parts of the south. It's also many parts of the north, especially near Switzerland and France, that people drop vowels.
Depending on which school of classification you follow, Italy still has anywhere between a dozen to just under 20 main dialects today.
Many of them still drop vowels, although it's rarer these days for people to speak in strong dialect.
You can hear many of them here: http://www.hull.ac.uk/G62/g62home/sa...lect_audio.htm |
I'm just saying that all the Italians I knew growing up (most of us were from Sicily, Calabria, Puglia, Basilicata and Abruzzo) never dropped vowels. When I was young I spent two months in Calabria and Basilicata and I never heard dropped vowels. The first time I ever heard an "Italian" dropping vowels was on the first episode I watched of the Sopranos.