Romanesco (Romanesco)
Spoken in:	Italy
Total speakers:
Language family:	Indo-European  Italic   Romance    Romanesco
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:
ISO/DIS 639-3:	—
Distribution of Romanesco in central Italy. Advertisement in Romanesco at Roman subway station
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Romanesco is a group of Romance dialects spoken in Rome and most of the surrounding regions of Lazio, Umbria, central Marche and extreme southern Tuscany in central Italy. It is often referred to as Italiano Meridiano and its varieties include Romanaccio, Laziale Centro-Settentrionale, Umbro Settentrionale, Umbro Meridionale-Occidentale e Viterbese, Umbro Meridionale-Orientale, Marchigiano Centrale Anconitano, Marchigiano Centrale Maceratese, and Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. ... The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family. ... Romance languages in the World Blue-French; Green-Spanish; Orange-Portuguese; Yellow-Italian; Red-Romanian The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... Latium (now Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ... This article is about the Italian region. ... A poppy field in Tuscany Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ...

It is a western Romance dialect group and its evolution has been similar to that of Italian and other Romance languages from their roots in Vulgar Latin. There are slight differences among the various dialects, but all are mutually intelligible with each other as well as with Italian. For historical reasons, the Roman dialect is the most divergent and resembles Italian, despite notable grammatical and idiomatic differences. Rich in expressions and sayings, Romanesco is used informally by most natives of central Italy. Vulgar Latin, as in this political engraving at Pompeii, was the language of the ordinary people of the Roman Empire, distinct from the Classical Latin of literature. ...

Terminology

Italian Meridiano, Roman dialect, Romanesco, Romanaccio

History

Diffusion

Noteworthy Figures

In fact today, Romanesco can be considered more of a regional idiom than a true language or dialect. Classical Romanesco, that made popular by Belli, is in the process of disappearing. Replacing it is a more vulgar parlance called "Romanaccio." External forces such as immigration and the dominance of Italian are playing a role in the transformation.

Romano Proper, spoken in the city of Rome and the immediate surrounding areas, is somewhat different from the rest of the Romanesco dialects.

Ma nun c'è lingua come la romana

Pe dì una cosa co ttanto divario

Che ppare un magazzino de dogana.

"Le lingue der monno"

- G.G. Belli