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  • Not only that, but the unification joined peoples speaking something like 50 different “dialects” of Italian. I’m not a linguist but the way I understand it, they evolved separately from Latin into a bunch of relatively similar languages. Something like 2% of the country spoke Italian Italian when the kingdom was unified.

    My grandparents were from opposite ends of Italy and argued over which was the correct dialect their whole lives.