Piacenza

Piacenza (Piasëinsa in the Piacentine dialect) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, of approximately 104,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza.

Dialect

Many inhabitants of Piacenza and the surrounding region still use the Piacentine (or Piacentino) dialect, which is quite different from standard (Florentine) Italian. The dissimilar pronunciation of even similar words makes the dialect largely mutually unintelligible with standard Italian, with many regular vowels being replaced with umlauts or eliminated altogether. Although there have been a number of notable poets and writers using the dialect, it has experienced a steady decline during the 20th century due to the growing standardization of the Italian language in the national educational system.

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