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Posted by
Scribetoo- AT - earthlink  -- NAME: Stefanie Kressaty
on 01/01/02 at 7:44 PM
A post in the December list prompted me to write. I discovered on a recent trip that Abruzzi boasts it's own dialect of Italian. This didn't hit home for me until I returned to the US and had to sing a Christmas piece in Italian (no big deal, right? WRONG). The piece originated in Abruzzi and the Italian in the music was "weird" -- mostly because of the occurrence of the letter "J" -- which doesn't exist in the traditional Italian alphabet. Is there a pronunciation guide somewhere for this dialect? If not, can someone tell me how the J figures in pronunciation? Is it pronounced aspirated like ZSH or is it treated like in spanish as a Y? Or is it really treated just like an American J? I asked my father, whose mother might have known, but he told me when his grandparents came over, they never used their own language in an attempt to "assimilate" (I'm so sad!!) Thanks! Follow Ups:
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