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georgetslc
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georgetslc asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 5 years ago

Question on spoken Italian: Is saying Commissa' for Commissario, Signo' for Signora, etc., purely Neapolitan, or what?

In the excellent series of Commissario Ricciardi mysteries by Maurizio de Giovanni, set in Naples, various speakers (as translated and presumably in the original Italian) use the above and various other shortenings of titles and names (e.g., Bambine' for Bambinella). Is this a general thing in colloquial Italian, typical only of Naples and perhaps other regions, or what?

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  • Sasoriza
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    No, it's a way of speaking typical of the south, so not just Naples. In the north you would never hear such shortenings.

    Source(s): I'm from northern Italy.
  • Nfaly
    5 years ago

    fgn

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