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For me the easiest to understand (80-90%) are Lombard (halfway between Italian and French) and Talian (relatively close to standard Italian).

Istriot is easy for everyday terms, but the poetry is harder.

Emilian sounds a bit like a Provençal dialect but with an odd pronunciation. I understand about 30%.

Friulian is surprisingly difficult. I understand only 10% of it.
 
The Emilian speaker has a very odd voice.

Ligurian starts here at 12 min followed by Emilian. Lombard starts at 20 min.

I've always said I didn't have all that much trouble with the Provencal poets because I grew up hearing Ligurian and Emilian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEPyE-nR58&t=821s

The dialect of Genova. A lot of Italians think it's impenetrable, maybe Emilian as well, but then I don't have an easy time with southern Italian dialects either. The movie about the Camorra was released in Italy with Italian subtitles. Similarly, when Godfather II came out, I had to rely on the English subtitles. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YNQ7zzxvQ

The dialect of the area where I was born: part of Toscana since the time of the Medici but the dialect has been described as Emilian influenced by Ligurian and Tuscan.

 
For me the easiest to understand (80-90%) are Lombard (halfway between Italian and French) and Talian (relatively close to standard Italian).

Istriot is easy for everyday terms, but the poetry is harder.

Emilian sounds a bit like a Provençal dialect but with an odd pronunciation. I understand about 30%.

Friulian is surprisingly difficult. I understand only 10% of it.

this Piedmontese should also be a 50-50 french italian ......or the french might be only Savoyard type

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy-Pv0Qw_ig



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIy_HK-fLg

check Walloon above


and Occitan ..............what my cousins also speak in toulouse area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO24gmnV8eo
 
The important linguist Ascoli told that these languages are linked with friulian:



I don't know if this theory is now confirmed.

I like also this romance language from Balkans:

 
My dying language:



I still speak it with mother, uncles, in-laws, etc all my cousins in Veneto ( over a dozen )

In the numbers part ............my father family , closer to Venice says the #5 as sinque ....while my mum, near Bassano says it as thinque

majority of members here still use it today

https://www.venetoclubmelbourne.com.au/
 
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