Central Italian
Central Italian (Italian: dialetti mediani) refers to the dialects of Italo-Romance spoken in the so-called Area Mediana, which covers a swathe of the central Italian peninsula. Area Mediana is also used in a narrower sense to describe the southern part, in which case the northern one may be referred to as the Area Perimediana, a distinction that will be made throughout this article. The two areas are split along a line running approximately from Rome in the southwest to Ancona in the northeast.
| Central Italian | ||
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| Native to | Italy | |
| Region | Umbria, Lazio (except the southeast), central Marche, small parts of southernmost Tuscany, and northwestern Abruzzo | |
Native speakers | ~3,000,000 (2006) | |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Glottolog | None | |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-ra ... -rba | |
Dialects that maintain a distinction between final /-u/ and /-o/ are outlined in red.
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