Regional Italian | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-03

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Regional Italian

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SUMMARY
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Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale), sometimes also called dialects of Italian, is any regional variety of the Italian language. Such regional varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the actual languages of Italy that predate the national tongue or any regional dialect thereof. The various forms of Regional Italian have phonological, prosodic and lexical features which originate from the underlying substrate of the original language. 
The various Tuscan, Corsican and Central Italian dialects are, to some extent, the closest ones to Standard Italian in terms of linguistic features, since the latter is based on a somewhat polished form of Florentine.