“MICROACCENTS” IN ITALY.

“MICROACCENTS” IN ITALY. I posted here about how many local languages there were in France at the time of the French Revolution (only about 11% of the population spoke French). Tom Shippey in a review in the Times Literary Supplement for September 28 points out that in the late 1800’s, only about one in forty of the people in Italy spoke standard Italian.

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