Cilentan dialect explained

Cilentan
Nativename:Celendano
States:Italy
Region:Cilento (Southern Campania)
Speakers:250,000
Date:no date
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Italic
Fam3:Latino-Faliscan
Fam4:Latin
Fam5:Romance
Fam6:Italo-Western
Fam7:Italo-Dalmatian
Fam8:Italo-Romance
Fam9:Neapolitan
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:none

The Cilentan dialect (in Italian: Cilentano, in Cilentan: Sicilian: Celendano or Sicilian: Cilindanu) is a Neapolitan dialect spoken in the area of Cilento, located in the southern part of the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.

Influences

It has been influenced, especially in the Vallo di Diano and in central Cilento, by the Basilicata language as spoken in Potenza and part of its Province of Potenza. In the towns of northern Cilento close to the urban area of Salerno (for example Agropoli, Capaccio and Paestum), the language is mainly influenced by Neapolitan, more specifically by the Salernitan dialect. In the southern corner of Cilento, the language is largely influenced by Sicilian, particularly the Calabrian variety of Sicilian.

See also