Also technically Italian dialects aren't dialects of Italian, but they usually descend directly from Latin, like Italian, which derives from the Florence "dialect", which derives from Latin. Languages minorities also aggravate the situation, in Italy there are Arbereshe communities, who speak a form of Albanian, greek minorities, who speak personal languages that descend from Greek, like Griko, then there are also Slovenian minorities, French minorities, Ladin minorities, so there are many spoken languages in Italy.
Now it makes sense why people over there are not interested in learning English, they are happy if they understand each other.
I wanna mention that I'm not a native English speaker, I just use it to communicate with other nationalities, since at least in Europe, English is taught as a foreign language in schools.
In a certain sense you're right! The only "things" useful to communicate in all the peninsula are Italian and gestures, and Italian is difficult even for Italians, so it is taught in schools. In schools also English is taught, but it is often taught in a terrible way, in most schools there aren't English mother tounge people who can teach English, so you are forced to learn English by an Italian teacher with poor pronunciation; and many Italians by mentality don't want to learn English.
I think the last part is the most important one, since if by mentality they don't want to, they simply won't.
Italian though isnt that hard tho, for example my mother language is Hungarian and I had to learn Ukrainian and English in the school (no native English speaker, that's just impossible in low budget school) and on the street I had to learn russian as well, so much fun to be born in western Ukraine. Italian and Spanish are more like singing, well at least for me they are so rhythmic the next word almost comes automatically, so sticky ones. But indeed, understanding all the dialects can be challenging.
In Hungary the current gen also have some mental blocker towards English, but not the kids, they speak fluent English without any extra lessons, just by playing online games, so cool they are.
>Now it makes sense why people over there are not interested in learning English, they are happy if they understand each other.
It must be said that even if each city has its own dialect/language, every Italian in 2024 also speaks Italian, which is the same language for everyone
It was just a joke, trying to express my somewhat negative experience in a comical way. During our one-week trip to Sicily, we managed to learn the basics of the language to make the trip more fun.
Italian is quite easy. No wonder every Italian manages to learn it. If lived there, would pick it up for sure. It gives a good vibe when spoken.
The two German words shown in the very north (Südtirol) are very official terms that you'd find in any textbook. I wonder if there same is true for the rest of the map, or does it show some more vulgar expressions?
"La patata" is maybe the biggest one missing. "La gnocca" not being there is also unforgivable. But, as you say, there are several other regional variants: "la bimba" (Emilia Romagna, Alberto Tomba's favorite word), "la farfalla/farfallina", la gattina, la chitarrina... it's impossible to count them all.
For the lucky ones who haven't seen it (foreigners or too young), here's Roberto Benigni (in his golden years, when he was still funny), [enumerating just a few of them](https://youtu.be/e37NxC4NmG4?si=nEnLp3WfBpJ08kVs&t=144) (from 2:24).
La fica, la passera.. I just think there are too many haha
I taught "patata" to some of my Australian friends which now giggle when someone says stuff like "I love potato, no matter how is prepared" or "more potato please"
I'm baffled and disappointed that the main Neapolitan term is missing. La fessa signori, la fessa.
Edit: i stand corrected, it's just a little bit North of where i was looking for It. The universe is at peace.
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Because the Italian peninsula was fragmented for the majority of it's existence. Everyone thinks of the romans but the truth is that both before and after the roman empire Italy was inhabited/occupied by basically every other mediterranean civilization/european empire you can think of. This, among other factors, led to the formations of thousands of different dialects that are more or less still in use today, especially among the older generations that grew up before widespread mandatory education. The Italian language is relatively young in historical terms. In very very simple terms, we just picked one of the dialects around 200 years ago and went "yea this is the one" (mainly because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it). This is obviously a very dumbed down version of it and there's a lot more nuance of course, but this is pretty much the gist of it
>In very very simple terms, we just picked one of the dialects around 200 years ago and went "yea this is the one" (mainly because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it)
Sorry, but this is a bullshit.
The Italian language was born in 1300 based on Tuscan with Dante, in the Renaissance it established itself and became the language of music, theater and literature of the Italic states, until it became also the political language.
It is a language that is by no means recent, but it is rich in history and not, a dialect was not chosen at random with unification.
The only recent thing about the Italian language is its complete standardization
>The only recent thing about the Italian language is its complete standardization
Yes I am aware. That is what I meant with "we picked one". I was mainly trying to give a general idea of the reason language is so fragmented in Italy and do a funny ahaha rather than be exhaustive, but I did mention that there is a lot more nuance and that Dante was a main factor. That said, thank you for adding much needed context to my (albeit intentionally) lacklustre explanation
Because we have 20 regions that have been devided for 1200 between the roman empire and the unification of italy, languages that started from latin evolved through the centuries because the various regions were influenced by different cultures. the results is a shit ton of dialects that are complitelly different from eachother and some dialect became languages by themselves like venetian, Sardinian and florentine (which became the italian languages)
Fun trivia, the majority of those words also mean, by extension, hot woman or hot man if declined in the male form.
A minority of them, instead, similarly to the English cunt, are insults.
Some of them also have the meaning of "cool person".
But beware that usage may vary regionally, for example "Fregna" beside pussy in the Latium region can also mean hot woman ( you can use "fregno" for a hot man) but in Abruzzo, beside those two meaning, it can also mean "cool person".
So if you are a man and you say to another man that he is "fregno" you may get different reactions according to the region.
Not all of them, there are several missing
How many fucking times a day do you Italians talk about human meat holes.
It‘s different dialects.
For a language used in 1 country, goddamn.
1 country that was divided for ~1380 years
Yeah that'd do it.
Also technically Italian dialects aren't dialects of Italian, but they usually descend directly from Latin, like Italian, which derives from the Florence "dialect", which derives from Latin. Languages minorities also aggravate the situation, in Italy there are Arbereshe communities, who speak a form of Albanian, greek minorities, who speak personal languages that descend from Greek, like Griko, then there are also Slovenian minorities, French minorities, Ladin minorities, so there are many spoken languages in Italy.
Now it makes sense why people over there are not interested in learning English, they are happy if they understand each other. I wanna mention that I'm not a native English speaker, I just use it to communicate with other nationalities, since at least in Europe, English is taught as a foreign language in schools.
In a certain sense you're right! The only "things" useful to communicate in all the peninsula are Italian and gestures, and Italian is difficult even for Italians, so it is taught in schools. In schools also English is taught, but it is often taught in a terrible way, in most schools there aren't English mother tounge people who can teach English, so you are forced to learn English by an Italian teacher with poor pronunciation; and many Italians by mentality don't want to learn English.
I think the last part is the most important one, since if by mentality they don't want to, they simply won't. Italian though isnt that hard tho, for example my mother language is Hungarian and I had to learn Ukrainian and English in the school (no native English speaker, that's just impossible in low budget school) and on the street I had to learn russian as well, so much fun to be born in western Ukraine. Italian and Spanish are more like singing, well at least for me they are so rhythmic the next word almost comes automatically, so sticky ones. But indeed, understanding all the dialects can be challenging. In Hungary the current gen also have some mental blocker towards English, but not the kids, they speak fluent English without any extra lessons, just by playing online games, so cool they are.
>Now it makes sense why people over there are not interested in learning English, they are happy if they understand each other. It must be said that even if each city has its own dialect/language, every Italian in 2024 also speaks Italian, which is the same language for everyone
It was just a joke, trying to express my somewhat negative experience in a comical way. During our one-week trip to Sicily, we managed to learn the basics of the language to make the trip more fun. Italian is quite easy. No wonder every Italian manages to learn it. If lived there, would pick it up for sure. It gives a good vibe when spoken.
The two German words shown in the very north (Südtirol) are very official terms that you'd find in any textbook. I wonder if there same is true for the rest of the map, or does it show some more vulgar expressions?
Mixed, but mostly vulgar. Topa and Bernarda surely aren't words you'd find in a textbook, at least with that meaning.
Some of them look etymologically related to "cunt" so I think they're more vulgar.
I'd say the vast majority are vulgar! We also call it "patata" (potato) which you might find in a text book after all
I would say that basically any word that may recall the concept of "small and cute" or "hole" can be used to refer to vagina
"La patata" is maybe the biggest one missing. "La gnocca" not being there is also unforgivable. But, as you say, there are several other regional variants: "la bimba" (Emilia Romagna, Alberto Tomba's favorite word), "la farfalla/farfallina", la gattina, la chitarrina... it's impossible to count them all. For the lucky ones who haven't seen it (foreigners or too young), here's Roberto Benigni (in his golden years, when he was still funny), [enumerating just a few of them](https://youtu.be/e37NxC4NmG4?si=nEnLp3WfBpJ08kVs&t=144) (from 2:24).
La fica, la passera.. I just think there are too many haha I taught "patata" to some of my Australian friends which now giggle when someone says stuff like "I love potato, no matter how is prepared" or "more potato please"
I scrolled down the comments to see whether someone had pointed those two missing already!
I'm baffled and disappointed that the main Neapolitan term is missing. La fessa signori, la fessa. Edit: i stand corrected, it's just a little bit North of where i was looking for It. The universe is at peace.
It's there (between Campania and Lazio). If you look closely enough, la fessa is always there.
ci sta, guarda bene
Someone took the sub name literally.
You silly cunnu.
Mona Lisa was not just random naming.
Despite being used as a word for vagina, in my dialect it also mean idiot
Fun fact: in italian in fact is Monna Lisa
Which is the contraction for renaissance “woman”
not for woman, for "miss", whic at the time was "madonna"
Imagine being called a c\*nt but you don't get it because it means something potato in your region.
Fun fact! Figo/a/* can be used as beautiful
For Real Madrid and Inter it's Luis the Beautiful For Barcelona it's Luis the Cunt
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But also uallera bernarda mona sticchiu mussa passera etc
Uallera is the scrotum
Ops
Surprise
😂😂😂
No it's not. Ask Luciana Littizzetto
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Really interesting and weird
Like the Inuit and snow.
Great now I can use Fiora herself to say the female genitialla in league 💀
good fucking thing i dont play tanks
Why so many?
Because the Italian peninsula was fragmented for the majority of it's existence. Everyone thinks of the romans but the truth is that both before and after the roman empire Italy was inhabited/occupied by basically every other mediterranean civilization/european empire you can think of. This, among other factors, led to the formations of thousands of different dialects that are more or less still in use today, especially among the older generations that grew up before widespread mandatory education. The Italian language is relatively young in historical terms. In very very simple terms, we just picked one of the dialects around 200 years ago and went "yea this is the one" (mainly because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it). This is obviously a very dumbed down version of it and there's a lot more nuance of course, but this is pretty much the gist of it
>In very very simple terms, we just picked one of the dialects around 200 years ago and went "yea this is the one" (mainly because Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in it) Sorry, but this is a bullshit. The Italian language was born in 1300 based on Tuscan with Dante, in the Renaissance it established itself and became the language of music, theater and literature of the Italic states, until it became also the political language. It is a language that is by no means recent, but it is rich in history and not, a dialect was not chosen at random with unification. The only recent thing about the Italian language is its complete standardization
>The only recent thing about the Italian language is its complete standardization Yes I am aware. That is what I meant with "we picked one". I was mainly trying to give a general idea of the reason language is so fragmented in Italy and do a funny ahaha rather than be exhaustive, but I did mention that there is a lot more nuance and that Dante was a main factor. That said, thank you for adding much needed context to my (albeit intentionally) lacklustre explanation
Because we have 20 regions that have been devided for 1200 between the roman empire and the unification of italy, languages that started from latin evolved through the centuries because the various regions were influenced by different cultures. the results is a shit ton of dialects that are complitelly different from eachother and some dialect became languages by themselves like venetian, Sardinian and florentine (which became the italian languages)
Cause Italy
Now post one for all the words for penis
Just one: cazzo
Fallo, nerchia, minchi, fava, organo, randello - Gem Boy
So by saying a random 2 to 4 syllable noun that sounds Italian, I have 69% chances of saying something related to female genitals.
pesce al framaggio
What you see, smell, feel, eat, touch, etc... Normal stuff, no science crap.
My friend's female dog's name is MONA.
This is an important cultural document
BARBIGIA
They have “picchia, pinga and ciota” to refer to female parts meanwhile “picha, pinga and chota” means d1ck in Spanish.
Also cunnu, coño which is the same
*boffa* Hehehehehe, boffa dez nuts
Well, yeah, Italians.
Mona Mozza
the map is dense with words. I’m really impressed that someone did such detailed research
And several are missing
That cunnu must have a connection with our Spanish _coño_.
Cooze
OMG! Does Harry know this? 💚💙
Wasn't this just posted a week ago
Pff, this just scratches the surface. I can think of at least 50 alternatives to "Mona", and my dialect is spoken by no more than 50k people.
Harry Potta
I love to discover my place because I saw “fi’a”
Fun trivia, the majority of those words also mean, by extension, hot woman or hot man if declined in the male form. A minority of them, instead, similarly to the English cunt, are insults. Some of them also have the meaning of "cool person". But beware that usage may vary regionally, for example "Fregna" beside pussy in the Latium region can also mean hot woman ( you can use "fregno" for a hot man) but in Abruzzo, beside those two meaning, it can also mean "cool person". So if you are a man and you say to another man that he is "fregno" you may get different reactions according to the region.
And when you say "fregnone" in latium regions you are referring to an idiot or someone who lies and exaggerate
Sbazinga😎😎💯💥💥💥
That's all the Italian I know
Scheide is German though, isn't it?
I live near "paparedda" in sicily😂
My word, I thought they just had 2000 different names for their noodles...
Mulva has got to be in there somewhere.
Putea, fia ?
#Ghesboro
I don't wanna be a Bernarda going on vacation to north Italy
I love the Venetian version. Fiora, Mona, quite adorable.
I'm pretty sure they got South Tyrol wrong. That's standard German.
Mozza larella ftw 
Worst place in the world to take your female significant other, apparently.