Say Wazzup to my shawty nigga!!!
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What is Sylvester Stallone? Spain begins at Naples anyways.
He is Italian. Never been to Spain or Naples but would love to go. I speak Spanish and am trying to learn Italian so perfect excuse
They don't speak Italian in Naples.
What do they speak? Wow I just assumed Italian
Neapolitan. It's not really mutually intelligible with northern Italian.
You have to remember that Italy has only been a unified nation state since the 19th century. Before that, the northern principalities were alternately sovereign, or ruled by The Holy Roman Empire or by France. Central Italy was ruled directly by the Papacy, and the south was the Kingdom of Naples, alternately sovereign or run by the Spanish or the French. The peninsula hadn't been unified since the fall of Rome, and 1500 years of divergent histories produced divergent languages.
To be clear they can speak Italian, the official national language, but it's not their local language.
That saying is from my Grandma. She is a pretty dark Italian lady, although a lot of it is from spending her whole life in the California sun. Thus some people say I am a nigger. She gets pissed when people mistake her for Hispanic. Hilariously I have horrible skin. It's pale white from my Norwegian side -- that's not the problem. I just get all kinds of skin ailments, and you can see every blemish because I'm so fucking pale. Two of my sisters got the Olive Italian skin and are very beautiful. Better that than the other way around, I suppose.