jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (04/19/91)
marchi@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Massimo Marchi) wrote: >> cockburn@system.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes: >> Portugal has at least one minority language (France 7, Italy 11). > Well I am Italian. Since my last time over there (last January) we had > only 4 minority languages: > French : spoken in Val d'Aosta > German : spoken in Alto Adige > Ladin : spoken in the north Eastern Alps (I believe) > Albanese: spoken in remote areas in Southern Italy > Maybe you can add the language spoken in Sardinia which is not just a > dialect. As I understand it, the inland and coastal dialects of Sardinia are mutually incomprehensible to each other, let alone speakers of standard Italian. Others: Friulian (round Venice), Slovenian (in the eastern Alps), Arabic (by thousands of immigrants all over the place), Serbo-Croat (by Gypsies). [ followups to trial.soc.culture.italian ] -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6854 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp