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Old 07-19-2009, 07:07 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The "modern" Italian language is a very recent "invention" - less than a century old. In the First World War, troops from different parts of Italy spoke mutually incomprehensible languages and were unable to understand one another. Even today, regional dialects such as Neopolitan often cannot be understood by people from other parts of Italy.
Isn't that the same in the UK? (still today, btw)
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