Do they speak different Italian in Naples?
Most of them speak Italian. A lot of Neapolitan people speak both standard Italian and Neapolitan dialect. Some old people use more dialect than Italian ,I think it’s a beautiful dialect . This is a video about Naples dialect and words .
What language do people speak in Naples Italy?
Neapolitan
Neapolitan language
| Neapolitan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Italy |
| Region | Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Marche, Molise |
| Native speakers | 5.7 million (2002) |
| Language family | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Dalmatian Neapolitan |
Do Italians speak standard Italian?
As others have answered, Standard Italian is spoken everywhere in Italy. Dialects and local languages are spoken as well throughout Italy, but no-one today speaks only a dialect or a local language, with the exception of some rare old person who never went to school.
Is Neapolitan hard?
Neapolitan is not difficult to learn – I did it myself. The best way of course is having Neapolitan speaking people around you, but you can well go ahead with a grammar book, texts and a dictionary.
Is the Neapolitan dialect similar to Sicilian?
Sicilian, is, like Venetian and Neapolitan, a language not a dialect. All these linguistic influences have made the Sicilian accent very different from a Standard Italian one. …
Is Neapolitan different from Italian?
1) Drop vowels: Words in Neapolitan often drop the final vowels that would exist in their Italian equivalents. This is particularly true with verbs. To speak Neapolitan means to have far too much to say in finite time. 2) The Schwa: ‘O’ and ‘E’ vowels at the ends of words in Neapolitan sound nearly identical.
How do you say hello in Napoli?
This is just the grammatical form of Neapolitan’s greetings….Ll’alleverènzia (greetings)
| English | Neapolitan |
|---|---|
| hi/hello | cia’, uè (guè) |
| good morning | bòna jurnàta, bongiorno, bonnì |
| good evening | bonasèra |
| good night | bonanòtte |
Can Italian speakers understand Neapolitan?
“O sole mio” was born in 1898 and as much as it is in Neapolitan it has grammatical influences of standard Italian (pure Neapolitan is closer to French than to Italian). Which Italians can understand it: can be roughly understood by a huge part of Italians and by people that can speak very well in Italian.