Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

ROME (Reuters) - It's official. The language of Italy is Italian -- but not everyone is happy about it. While it might seem obvious, the Italian-ness of Italian has only just been enshrined in the ...

Tongue of Petrarch and Boccaccio risks becoming a mere dialect as Anglicisms flood in, head of 16th-century academy warns Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop. They banter not in ...