Dialect and Language
We received the following email from a concerned CIAO user.
CIAO Webpage: correction suggested
From: [name deleted]
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 11:44:24 EDT
To whom it may concern:
I read in your CIAO Web page (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/) that CIAO is:
from "s'sciavo", "I am your servant" in Venetian dialect
True, but I would like to point out that the Venetian is a language in its own right, not a dialect. The fact that the Republic of Venice has become in recent times part of Italy does not mean that its ancient language should also be downgraded to a dialect, which linguistically speaking is not.
Sorry for being so pedantic but we are very proud of our culture.
The rest of the site is top quality, well done.
Sincerely,
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