Roman Expressions

Many persons think that Rome is a exceptional capital and that Roman individuals are incredible. Extraordinary individuals that you can only love because of one attribute that always arouses fantastic sympathy for them: their dialect. With a humorous accent and vocabulary mildly sounding Italian, the Romanesco language leads to many giggles among Italian speaking vacationers.

This dialect is one of the most popular dialects in Italy, made well-known by various movies. Right here's a rapid historical overview: the so called "Romanesco” dialect, known to most by this word (most use the word "Romano"), experienced a fast spread between the nineteen twenties and 1930s, a moment when the heavy migration flux brought the inhabitants of indigenous Romans to be numerically smaller than the immigrants. A few years later, in the 50s and 60s, a comparable phenomenon occurred, due to the fact of migration flows from the central and southern portion of the country. The '70s and '80s led, instead, a profound change to the dialect, impoverished due to the fact of sociable twisting in the popular neighbourhoods (Trastevere, San Lorenzo, Testaccio), where the dialect was conversed fluently and whose version is component of the true center of Rome. So, in those years, ‘Romanesco’ began to be in decline. But there is also another explanation of "death" of the dialect in Rome: the cinema movement called “neorealism” (from 1950), in whose movies always displayed the existence of “Romanesco speakers”, conveyed the message of the Romanesco language becoming a bad language of peasant and low education.

Today, the Roman dialect is conversed fluently by the inhabitants of Rome and its surroundings, specially in casual situations. Today the closest version to the "original" is the version conversed in the metropolis. Just a minor bit far kind Rome and it modifications and another dialect is conversed, the “laziale”.

So what would Rome be without Romanesco? This is a language that even most international vacationers on vacation can recognize. A vacation in the capital is also reminded in these "sociable" aspects, in the behavior and habits of individuals who populate Rome. In order to discover the ideal location Rome, have a look for a good resort or appartement Rome.

And to finish, here are most illustrations of typical Romanesco phrases (without “translation”…you have to go to Rome to comprehend the meaning): "m'ha sgamato", "'na cifra", "famo er vento", "s´è apparecchiato pe´ ttera", "buzzicona"…