An East Boston woman’s mission to bring back a traditional dialect and honor her Italian heritage comes to life in a new children’s book. “Where’s Marianna?” by Lisa Cappuccio, is written in English ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...

Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...