[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[GerardM]

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 at 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 at gmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania
>
> > 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 at 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 at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> >> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> 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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