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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Oh, the dialects are still spoken, and taught to children, in every region of Italy.
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Maybe this is true for all languages, Italian dialects are quite different from each other.
Some years ago I was skying in a fancy resort in the Dolomites. The fancy enters in the story because people came from all over Italy. To pass the time on the chairlifts, I started to ask my occasional companions where they were from. From all over. Then I asked them how "let's go" came out in their dialect.
This was a lucky trick, among other things I made friend with a pretty girl (the friendship lasted for years and her husband became the sky instructor of my little daughter) and we skied together many times. My wife was lazy and coldish, her husband was busy instructing and we were skiwise compatible.
So in the North from West to East and from North to South, in steps of hundreds of miles, roughly this is what I got for "let's go".
Which is "andiamo", "alons nous", "vamonos" und "laß uns gehen" (dictionary.com translator).
andùma, andèm, vem, nèm, ndèm, ndum, ndom, andèmo, i, nin,
annamo, iamme, iam, iamo, iamoncènne, iammuninne, siàme, sciàmane, sciamuncìnne, imunìnni.
From Celtic to Arab.
P.S. The dialect of Bergamo is the more cryptic by far. Very practically, they use "i" (pronounced "e") for "wine".