"Italian" is not a real language, it is standardized Tuscan

"Italian" is not a real language, it is standardized Tuscan.

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Yes... Basically they obligated the rest of Italy to speak the tuscan dialect

Much like Italy is not a country but a Frankenstein monster of regions

It's a real language *because* it's standardized Tuscan (plus considerable additions in vocabulary)
How is any spoken language not real anyway

It's a mixture of tuscan, milanese and piedmontese

what is a real language by his standard?

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>milanese and piedmontese
?

would you rather italy separate into its regions again and further diminish your power on the world stage?

if we could separate from the south we'd be unstoppable

I promessi sposi was used as the italian official language, and manzoni used a mix of piedmontese and milanese (but mostly high level tuscan)

Yes, we are irrelevant because two countries stuck together don't work

Out of all the dialects in Italy, why was the Tuscan one chosen?

Because of Leonardo Da Vinci
He was a mastermind and predict all the political changes that allowed Italy to speak Tuscan

because florence was the center of the world during the renaissance

Where does the South starts??

North is just Padania and Emilia-Romana?

Dante Alighiere

>Where does the South starts??

Below the Po river.

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Everything south of Lazio

Do you consider Emilia-Romagna North?

Yes

One guy says Po River, other says Roma, other says Lazio...

Based

this is north, center and south but i consider the center as south too

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Well, this makes sense to me.

Center should be a country too

Because we're all memeing you.
The traditional geographical and linguistic division is North, Center, South
Doing just N/S is retarded and is only done for jokes like "everything who's southern than me is a terrone"

>Center should be a country too
I have forgotten the ??

Was a question

Center should be a country too??

South of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna

>Emilia Romagna
is north

Center is relatively well developed and can be included in the North
The South is a lost cause

Isn't it?

>He didn't study about the "risciacquatura in Arno" that the Promessi Sposi went through

Every single S*utherner should be shot in the back of the head and dumped in the Mediterranean from a boat

Because Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and Giovanni Boccaccio were all Florentine poets and were the most successful of their time, the XIII-XIV century.
Because of that, later Italian authors during the Renaissance, even from outside Tuscany (Pietro Bembo, the most influential linguist of this period, was a Venetian), all agreed that the Florentine Tuscan used by those (and other minor) authors should become the model of the Italian language used by poets, literates, and by the upper class all throughout Italy.
This was soon standardized and controlled until today by various linguistic academies, the most successful of which was the Accademia della Crusca, which was founded in the XVI century and still today is the national academy for the standardization of the Italian language.

Who cares

The guy to whom I replied, I guess.

I found it interesting tbqh