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The Southern Latian dialect (

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: ''laziale meridionale'') is a Southern Italian dialect widespread in the southernmost areas of

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, in particular south of the city of

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and starting from the cities of Formia and Gaeta along the coast.

History

Although in

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the area was part of

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(

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), the region, starting from the Lombard period and therefore from the

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, entered the orbit of southern political powers, substantially up to the Italian unification. During the fascist regime the northern territories of the Terra di Lavoro were therefore re-annexed to Lazio. The long southern domination and migrations, for example from nearby Abruzzo to the Land of San Benedetto,See, for example: L. Fabiani, La terra di S. Benedetto: studio storico giuridico sull'Abbazia di Montecassino dall’VIII al XIII secolo, Badia di Montecassino, 1968, rist. anastatica, Isola del Liri, Tip. Edit. Michele Pisani, volume secondo, pp. 296-297 obviously had different effects on the local language.

Features

The dialect is therefore in many respects similar, in particular in the vocabulary, to the dialects of

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, although it differs from them on the phonetic level (similar to the

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

dialects) and from the influence of the Central-Northern Latian dialects spoken in the nearby central-northern areas of the provinces of

and

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Reference

Further bibliography

* N. Maccarrone, ''I dialetti di Cassino e di Cervaro'', Unione Tipografica Cooperativa, Perugia, 1915 * C. Merlo, ''Fonologia del dialetto di Sora'', 1920 * Adam Ledgeway, ''Grammatica diacronica del napoletano'', Tübingen 2009 * Michele Loporcaro, ''Sintassi comparata dell'accordo participiale romanzo'', Rosenberg & Sellier, 1998, p. 4

History

Features

Reference

Further bibliography

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