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Romance dialects : sound-to-spelling correspondance?
Romance languages differ greatly in between dialects. What are exemples of Romance languages that have the same writing system, but are written phonetically, with differences between dialects?
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Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon be recognized from Rome to Lisbon?
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate over ...
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Is Occitan a single language or have its different dialects become separate languages?
The Wikipedia page for the language mentions a 'controversy' about whether it is a language, macrolanguage or language family.
Is there an official status for the language and what are the ...
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Any other example of "socially stigmatized phoneme" like the "th" sound in some Venetian dialect?
Older people living in some rural areas north of Venice use the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ for many words, like cena "supper" which is pronounced θena, exactly like in Spanish cena (Castilian, not ...
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To what extent do African dialects of Italian differ from their European counterparts?
According to Wikipedia, Italian is spoken to some degree in Libya, Eritrea and Federal Republic of Somalia.
Are there in Africa any clearly different varieties of this language which have distinct ...
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