Talk:Castelmezzano dialect

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Hours after I created this, we have a duplicate article, half of it copy-pasted from here. But I don't know enough about this to merge them. Are there two theories, one that these dialects are intrusive from the north, and one that they are remnants of a time when southern Italian dialects were Eastern Romance? Has one theory won consensus, and the other just a historical curiosity? Are there two kinds of dialects? Etc. — kwami (talk) 21:44, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you, you don't know enough about this argument. Yes, they are two different languages and theories. Gallo-Italic of Basilicata isn't connected with Castelmezzano language and viceversa. There are several sources that support the existence of Gallo-Italic language (Northern Italian language) in Basilicata. Castelmezzano language is in any case a Southern Italian language. I have created the article because you are making a bit of confusion.--Frereau (talk) 10:29, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. It looked like the map counted Castelmezzano as Gallo-Italic. — kwami (talk) 22:13, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which map? --Frereau (talk) 12:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The one in the Basilicata article. — kwami (talk) 14:10, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

attention needed

Is Castelmezzano a variety of Gallo-Italic of Basilicata? — kwami (talk) 22:21, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No it's not, as written in all the most important studies about Gallo-Italics of Basilicata. --Frereau (talk) 12:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

language dialect is from

This doesn’t say what language this is a dialect of, just that it is a dialect SaavayuAdrin (talk) 18:02, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is because people can't agree on where it fits in. It has features which suggest two possible origins. I don't think anyone has yet suggested that it be regarded as a separate language and there would probably be resistance to this idea.

I am reminded of the disagreement surrounding Elfdalian, which some believe should have official minority-language status in Sweden, as it is regarded as a distinct language. However, it is described as a variety of Dalecarlian, which some argue does not deserve to be regarded as a distinct language.

In both cases we run up against the problem of what exactly is meant by the word "dialect". There is such disagreement on this that some people prefer to avoid the word and just say "language variety". However, this gets us nowhere; one could ask, "Variety of which language?"

LynwoodF (talk) 16:05, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]