Baci chocolates, literally translating as 'kisses', are an Italian icon - and now the sweets are celebrating the country's dialects. Each chocolate comes wrapped in small messages of love, like a ...

An East Boston woman’s mission to bring back a traditional dialect and honor her Italian heritage comes to life in a new children’s book. “Where’s Marianna?” by Lisa Cappuccio, is written in English ...

Italy's Griko dialects are classed as endangered by the European Union and Unesco. But could folk music be the secret to keeping them alive? Greece-born Italian student Constantinos Orphanos ...

Some scholars believe that the knowledge of dialects decreases with raising levels of education, but researcher and linguist Ruben Benatti and PhD student Angela Tarantini speculate that this is not ...

Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

Share this with family and friends Dialects are still widely spoken by Italians in Australia: we asked our listeners which dialect they speak and if they have a favourite expression from their own ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop. They banter not in ...