New Jersey is a wonderfully diverse place. Though a relatively small state, it has the highest population density in the U.S. It’s also brimming with an immense amount of Italian-American residents. I ...

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 ...

Will a Mass celebrated in an Italian dialect pave the way for translation of the Roman Missal into regional dialects? The question was raised April 28, when Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, deputy ...

For the average person, the differences between a language and a dialect seem pretty clear. A dialect is a subset of a language. One speaks in a dialect and writes in a language. As the linguist and ...

In Italy, like in other countries, most COVID-19 victims are elderly. It is not only a devastating loss of human life. Dr Annamaria Paolino, Australian-born of Italian origins, is afraid this might ...

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 ...

Lavertezzo in Ticino, Switzerland, where Swiss Italian is spoken. Photo by Radek Kozák on Unsplash Italian is one of Switzerland's four official languages (alongside Swiss German, French and Romansh).

ROME (Reuters) - It's official. The language of Italy is Italian -- but not everyone is happy about it. While it might seem obvious, the Italian-ness of Italian has only just been enshrined in the ...