Tuscan dialect
| Tuscan | |
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| Toscano | |
| Native to | Italy and France |
| Region |
Tuscany (except the Province of Massa-Carrara) Umbria (western border with Tuscany) Corsica, Haute-Corse (as a variety) Sardinia, Gallura (as a variety) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
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Linguist list
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ita-tus |
| Glottolog | None |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-qa |
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Tuscan (dialetto toscano [di.aˈlɛtto toˈskaːno; dja-]) is an Italo-Dalmatian variety mainly spoken in Tuscany, Italy.
Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, specifically on its Florentine dialect, and it became the language of culture for all the people of Italy thanks to the prestige of the masterpieces of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. It would later become the official language of all the Italian states and of the Kingdom of Italy when it was formed.
Tuscan is a dialect complex composed of many local variants, with minor differences among them.
The main subdivision is between Northern Tuscan dialects and Southern Tuscan dialects.
The Northern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west):
The Southern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west):
Corsican and Gallurese:
Excluding the inhabitants of Province of Massa and Carrara, who speak an Emilian variety of a Gallo-Italic language, around 3,500,000 people speak the Tuscan dialect.
The Tuscan dialect as a whole has certain defining features, with subdialects that are distinguished by minor details.
The Tuscan gorgia affects the voiceless stop consonants /k/ /t/ and /p/. They are often pronounced as fricatives in post-vocalic position when not blocked by the competing phenomenon of syntactic gemination:
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