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Preferred term

napNeapolitan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Southern Italian (Dialetti italiani meridionali), or Napoletano-Calabrese, is a group of Italo-Dalmatian Romance dialects spoken in Southern Lazio, Southern Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, and Northern Calabria. Part of a language continuum, they are all mutually intelligible and are often referred to as Neapolitan languages (based on Naples' historic role as capital of the region). According to Ethnologue, the dialects are grouped as Napoletano-Calabrese and are given the status of language. Some consider the dialects simply as Italian dialects affected by a samnite substratum.

Entry terms

  • Southern Italian

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • nap

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • nap

ISO 639-3 code

  • nap

Notation

  • nap

In other languages

  • napolitain

    French

  • Süditalienisch

    German

  • Neapolitanisch
  • napoletano

    Italian

  • Dialetti italiani meridionali
  • napolitano

    Portuguese

  • napolitano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nap

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