Re: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 13:09:12 EST

Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:

> Most Italian dialects are actually written.

Okay, well anyhow in Latin script, and surely representable.

Here are the ones I left out, evidently in error:

LOMBARD
NEAPOLITAN-CALABRESE

SIL generally uses a "mutually unintelligible" definition
of language, so some dialects have been lumped with
Standard Italian because they are reasonably mutually intelligible
with it.

> Not that it is an issue: all Italians also speak the national language,

Is this now fully true?

> - Several dialects have semi-official status in some areas: Ladin, Friulian,
> Venetian, Sardinian;

Ladin/Friulian and Sardinian are generally considered separate languages
altogether, at least by Romance philologists. 

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