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AngelaGrace56 wrote:The town has had a few name changes. So my understanding is that during that 1863-1932 period people born during that time continued to be known as “Saponarese”. Would that be right?
PippoM wrote:Angela, your example of "rient" is perfect about what I meant.
But it will be clearer if I correct a typo...
PippoM wrote:Angela,
I can tell you that in Neapolitan/Southern dialect, starting "D"'s are often phonetically substituted by an "R" (expecially out of the city of Naples), and final vowels are not pronounced or "shaded/suspended". This does not happen in "literary" dialect, that's why you can't find that form of the name by googling it.
For instance "addo'" = "where" can be pronounced "aro'", or "daje" = "you give" can be pronounced "raj". Where was zio Domenico from?
Thank you Pippo, yes I thought it worked well.
I had already spotted your typo - I knew exactly what you meant
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 ...
