An East Boston woman’s mission to bring back a traditional dialect and honor her Italian heritage comes to life in a new children’s book. “Where’s Marianna?” by Lisa Cappuccio, is written in English ...

Italy's Griko dialects are classed as endangered by the European Union and Unesco. But could folk music be the secret to keeping them alive? Greece-born Italian student Constantinos Orphanos ...

Will a Mass celebrated in an Italian dialect pave the way for translation of the Roman Missal into regional dialects? The question was raised April 28, when Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, deputy ...

Some scholars believe that the knowledge of dialects decreases with raising levels of education, but researcher and linguist Ruben Benatti and PhD student Angela Tarantini speculate that this is not ...

New Jersey is a wonderfully diverse place. Though a relatively small state, it has the highest population density in the U.S. It’s also brimming with an immense amount of Italian-American residents. I ...

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop. They banter not in ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...

In Italy, like in other countries, most COVID-19 victims are elderly. It is not only a devastating loss of human life. Dr Annamaria Paolino, Australian-born of Italian origins, is afraid this might ...

Italy's Griko dialects are classed as endangered by the European Union and Unesco. But could folk music be the secret to keeping them alive? Greece-born Italian student Constantinos Orphanos ...