Angela
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I find Venetian more understandable than other northern Italian languages.
This is an example of dialetto pontremolese, it's uber gallo-italic, even in northern Italy it is increasingly rare to find people who speaks such a strong dialect. The guy is from Pontremoli but is he fully native of Pontremoli? Because one of the surnames sounds Piedmontese, the other is both Lombard and Emilian
I have grandparents from different areas of Italy, I cover the whole country.
I posted that video on another thread. From what he says, he grew up in the shadow of the Piagnaro, and he's speaking to a group of Pontremolesi, so this is his dialect, the dialect of Pontremoli, whether or not he might have an ancestor from furthern north.
This is another example of Pontremolese:
This is the dialect of the slightly more southern part of the valley, near Liciana Nardi, and my mother's Bagnone.
Collecchia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfSW48RsV8
Ninna Nanna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtw9uSSxIGA&list=PLW0GdsvlVOzjPiMwgr-eyz7N8s7oQNp_5
Filastrocca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKtJmImYTs&list=PLW0GdsvlVOzjPiMwgr-eyz7N8s7oQNp_5
Zucchero sings with Bugelli occassionally during the summers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFJNtjJlH08
This is the dialect of Sarzana, just over the border in Liguria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuh29plPPts
Spezzino:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlN1g09Elfk&t=9s
As for parmigiano...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_a8zjY6bBk
The language of the Veneto is easier to understand than any of them, imo.
We won't even get into Zenese.
@Regio,
For your father...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j57VMotWCx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5LC6Cl6Bdw