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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Thank you, Olis! That site is amazing. They even have books in dialects!
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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.