Neapolitan

Also known as Neapolitan language, Continental Southern Italian, Napulitano

Italo-Dalmatian language spoken in southern Italy

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Neapolitan is a language spoken in southern Italy that belongs to the Italo-Dalmatian language family, distinct from standard Italian. It remains culturally significant as a marker of regional identity in the Naples area, though it has fewer speakers today than in the past.

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Wikimedia language code: nap
native label: Lengua napulitana
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 7500000
Commons category: Neapolitan language
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133116638
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Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano [(o n)napuliˈtɑːnə]; Italian: napoletano), also known as Intermediate Southern Italian, is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian branch spoken in most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of the area, and the city of Naples was its capital. On 14 October 2008, a law by the Region of Campania stated that Neapolitan was to be protected.