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Marchigiano | |
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Marchiscià | |
Native to | Italy |
Region | central Marche (provinces of Ancona, Macerata and Fermo) |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 900,000[citation needed]) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
ita-cen | |
Glottolog | None |
Linguasphere | & 51-AAA-rba 51-AAA-okl & 51-AAA-rba |
Central Marchigiano refers to a group of Romance varieties spoken in the central part of the Marche region of Italy, in an area that includes the provinces of Ancona, Macerata and Fermo. It is one of the Central Italian dialects and forms part of a continuum that also encompasses Umbrian and Tuscan. There are notable grammatical, lexical and idiomatic differences between Marchigiano and standard Italian, but it is considered, along with the rest of Central Italian dialects, to be fairly intelligible to a speaker of Standard Italian.
According to internal variation, Marchigiano is divided into two main areas: