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My great grandfather was from Palermo. My grandmother's maiden name was Rose Di Christina born in New York. She had a sister, Sabena Di Christina born in Palermo and migrated to the US when she was an infant.
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 ...