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The article highlights the political, economic, and educational conditions in Italy during the Middle Ages, the subdivisions of each Romance Language into smaller regional linguistic areas according to existing social, political and economic infrastructures, and the appearance of a regional language...

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Published in:Other Voices: Essays on Italian Regional Culture & Language pp. 7 - 18
Main Author: Staulo, John
Format: Article
Published: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1990
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Summary:The article highlights the political, economic, and educational conditions in Italy during the Middle Ages, the subdivisions of each Romance Language into smaller regional linguistic areas according to existing social, political and economic infrastructures, and the appearance of a regional language as a linguistic entity independent of Latin in the book "Other Voices," by John Staulo.