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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Italian, as a written language, is quite old (but never was talked). Only recently, with a higher level of education, the "high" Italian is been used more and more as a talking language.
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I'm Canadian, but of Italian descent, specificially of Sicilian roots. Both my parents and grandparents were born in Siciliy and eventually emigrated to Toronto over a half century ago.
I learned our Sicilian dialect first, then English, then some conversational as well as a bit of written Italian.
My (retired) Italian-only speaking grandmother was my early educator (while both my parents worked) and so I learned her Sicilian dialect quite well but later found out, when I was older, that that dialect is almost never written.
They wrote in proper Italian, but spoke dialect... 
It is a chore to co-erce the
pronunciation of some Sicilian words into an Italian phonic, let alone be able to read what you've written.
Iddu/idda represent
he/she with a slight slur on the second "d" and "vowel".