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Would you ever guess that the first name is Luigia and the last name is Marchi? This is how my grandmother, born in 1886, signed her oath of naturalization.
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...