Very interesting to learn about all those dialects of Italia!
Living abroad in the "new" continent, we often have no ideas of the linguistic situations in Europe which is totally different from here. Here, in Canada, US, Latin America, etc. We speak the language of the people who once "colonized" us. We speak the same language all over the country, with regional differentiations of course, but nothing similar to Europe. I understand your frustration Cinema, I neither like a language to be elevated to an "official" rank while the others are being forgotten...
Gattopardu, is your signature in Sicilian? By the way, I know that your nick name means "cheetah", but it sounds to me as "guatto (cat) + pardu ("lost" in French, but with a big accent québécois...). Thus, "lost cat"
