[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[senpai]

I'm sure that you know very well all kind of italian lanuages and you can 
talk about ur history becaouse you study it for a long time, is it right ?

Senpai

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From: "GerardM" <gerard.meijssen a gmail.com>
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> Hoi,
> There is no one history of Italy, there may be one curriculum taught in
> Italy.. one indication for this, the Neapolitan language is closer to
> Catalan than it is to Italian. You are mistaken when you say that only
> Italian is recognised as a language by the Italian government, there are
> more. Also linguistically it is not that relevant what a government calls 
> an
> official language. The Dutch sign language for instance is not considered 
> an
> official language. Ethnologue does recognise it as a separate language and
> it is clearly not understandable by people who do not know the Dutch sign
> language.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> On 7/11/07, senpai <wikisenpai a gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You was taking about "italian" and not "dialect" (that are another thing)
>> in
>> Italy we have only one official language the "italian" (except for some
>> country with a specific "statuto") and that language it's a direct
>> derivation of the "toskany Vulgar". May be for an italian is much easy
>> know
>> this part of our history, becaouse we learn it at school.........
>>
>> Senpai
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "GerardM" <gerard.meijssen a gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:29 PM
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>>
>> > Hoi,
>> > When you think that Italy is the same as Tuscany then you are right..
>> The
>> > map is however a wee bit bigger, and Ethnologue lists some 33 language
>> for
>> > Italy. There are enough Italian languages that have their own
>> dialects...
>> > and many of these dialects are considered not mutually understandable.
>> > Thanks,
>> >     GerardM
>> >
>> > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IT
>> >
>> > On 7/11/07, senpai <wikisenpai a gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> That's not right, the italian language is borned in the 1300 by the
>> >> toskany's "vulgar" (vulgar was a direct derivation of the latin), but
>> >> this
>> >> is quite OT ^_^.
>> >>
>> >> Senpai
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "GerardM" <gerard.meijssen a gmail.com>
>> >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:17 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania
>> >>
>> >> > Hoi,
>> >> > When Americans speak English, it may be different but it is English.
>> >> When
>> >> > the Italians speak, they do not necessarily speak Italian. Italian
>> was
>> >> > created at the unification of Italy, the culture, the cooking is
>> >> different
>> >> > along similar lines, the history goes back centuries and it is a
>> living
>> >> > history. I know that there are big differences culturally in the USA
>> >> > and
>> >> > that is something to be cherished.
>> >>
>> >>
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