Neapolitan language
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Date: 2022-02-02

Neapolitan_language:
In the United States, traditional Neapolitan has had considerable contact with English and the Sicilian languages spoken by Sicilian and Calabrian immigrants living alongside Neapolitan-speaking immigrants, and, subsequently, Neapolitan in the U.S. is now significantly different from contemporary Neapolitan spoken in Naples. English words are often used in place of Neapolitan words, especially among second-generation speakers. The following dialects constitute Neapolitan; numbers refer to the map: The southernmost regions of Italy-most of Calabria, southern Apulia, and southern Salerno as well as Sicily-are home to Sicilian rather than Neapolitan. Neapolitan is a Romance language and is generally considered one of the Italo-Romance branch of the Italo-Dalmatian languages. As in many other languages in the Italian Peninsula, Neapolitan has an adstratum greatly influenced by other Romance languages, Germanic languages and Greek. Although Neapolitan shares a high degree of its vocabulary with Italian, the official language of Italy, differences in pronunciation often make the connection unrecognizable to those without knowledge of Neapolitan. The name of a language in Neapolitan is always neuter, so if we see 'o nnapulitano we know it refers to the Neapolitan language, whereas 'o napulitano would refer to a Neapolitan man. The Neapolitan indefinite articles, corresponding to the English a or an, are presented in the following table: In Neapolitan there are four finite moods: indicative, subjunctive, conditional and imperative, and three non-finite modes: infinitive, gerund and participle.

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