Baci chocolates, literally translating as 'kisses', are an Italian icon - and now the sweets are celebrating the country's dialects. Each chocolate comes wrapped in small messages of love, like a ...

Italy's Griko dialects are classed as endangered by the European Union and Unesco. But could folk music be the secret to keeping them alive? Greece-born Italian student Constantinos Orphanos ...

Say you’re shopping at a farmer’s market in Rome, and you’d like to pick up some nice, ripe watermelon. The signs at some stands call it “anguria”; others say “cocomero” or “melone d’acqua.” Why so ...

Some scholars believe that the knowledge of dialects decreases with raising levels of education, but researcher and linguist Ruben Benatti and PhD student Angela Tarantini speculate that this is not ...

In an increasingly global world, music continues to be an extraordinary vehicle for cultural identity and local languages. A clear example is the near success of the talented Geolier at the latest ...

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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 ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...

Dialects are still widely spoken by Italians in Australia: we asked our listeners which dialect they speak and if they have a favourite expression from their own dialect.