Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

Will a Mass celebrated in an Italian dialect pave the way for translation of the Roman Missal into regional dialects? The question was raised April 28, when Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, deputy ...

For the average person, the differences between a language and a dialect seem pretty clear. A dialect is a subset of a language. One speaks in a dialect and writes in a language. As the linguist and ...

In Italy, like in other countries, most COVID-19 victims are elderly. It is not only a devastating loss of human life. Dr Annamaria Paolino, Australian-born of Italian origins, is afraid this might ...

Writers and poets shaped its style and vocabulary over centuries, with beauty and sound as some of their primary considerations. It happened again the other day. I was walking down the street in my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a ...