How has the dialect changed over time

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Problem

Choose one of the prompts and compose a work in response based on your understanding of the lectures and readings in our course.

Length: 1200 to 2000 words (4 to 7 pages).

Linguist Uriel Weinreich famously noted that "a language is a dialect with an army." Drawing on the lectures and readings from our course, what is the relationship between language and dialect in Italy? Then choose an example of an Italian dialect and explain how that dialect has given shape to local, regional, and national identity (or identities). How has this dialect changed over time? Why and how has this dialect been important to Italian history and culture? What is its relationship to the Italian language? To other languages?

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