http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/language-life-and-death-in-new-york-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-life-and-death-in-new-york-city Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/language-life-and-death-in-new-york-city/comment-page-1/#comment-27461 Paul Venturo Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:33:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=156597#comment-27461 Lost dialects - I was born in Pretoro, Provinci di Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.  The only places I can hear our Pretorese dialect - similar to Napoletana - anymore are among my extended family members in metro Boston, Ottawa, Toronto, New Canaan, CT and Kenilworth, NJ.  I'm 50, the generations that followed me were all schooled in proper Italian and it filtered up to their elders. Lost dialects – I was born in Pretoro, Provinci di Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.  The only places I can hear our Pretorese dialect – similar to Napoletana – anymore are among my extended family members in metro Boston, Ottawa, Toronto, New Canaan, CT and Kenilworth, NJ.  I’m 50, the generations that followed me were all schooled in proper Italian and it filtered up to their elders.

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