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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
> Wouldn't toscano, romanesco and romagnolo [sp?]
o.k.
> be the only co-dialects of standard Italian?
Since a dialect cannot be regarded as a mere subpart or subdivision of
a language, my reply is affirmative: standard Italian, which a type of
artificially built 'national' language based on a variety of the
Tuscan dialect depurated from some of the latter's typical
phonological features (such as aspirates, spirants etc.), is
definitely a co-dialect of most of other dialects spoken in Italy.
Likewise, standard British English and American English are but two co-
dialects of the trans-continental English language continuum.
Regards,
Francesco