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The Neapolitan Language

 

- The Neapolitan is not a Dialect but a real language. - It unites phonetic sounds with images gestuali that make the expression of the thought it completes of all the necessary requisite for a correct interpretation from the interlocutor. -

 

- This type of language results very difficult for the not Neapolitan because it is not the single word to have a precise position in the discourse but the abbinamento of composed expressions that they determine the idea which wants to transfer each other, in clear way more or less, in operation of the conditions and necessity that originate the dialogue. -

 

- It is not therefore, a necessary real dictionary to a comprehensible translation to another our fellow countryman not to speak of a foreigner but a series of popular mottos, orderly alphabetically that we can define " Proverbs " because, in conclusion it is really the " Proverb " to express the wisdom of a people. -

 

- Tener is necessary I count that the Neapolitan uses game of the bitterness that life reserves to each to take: He doesn't underestimate them and so much less he ignores them rather it is in practice, a realist that, however it never reaches a form of pure cynicism, but it transforms the everything trespassing in absurd way, in a kind of optimism that characterizes it distinguishing it between all the other human beings. -

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- We have picked up the popular mottos that are handed down each other up to our days in a kind of orderly dictionary in alphabetical form for a better search and to confer to the a whole certain facility of access to the harvest. -

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