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Dialects of Italy / Dialetti italiani

Many different Italian dialects were spoken in Italy a few hundred years ago.  Some survive and are still spoken today.  The "dialect" of Tuscany has evolved, with some changes, into the national language of Italy.  In researching your Italian Family Tree you may find records written in the local dialect of your ancestors.  Most dialects of Italy have been recorded and archived in various types of Italian Dictionaries but not many are available online via the Internet.  This is a partial list only, if you find your ancestors "Italian Dialect" Dictionary Online, send me the link and I will add it to the Dialects of Italy links below in hopes that it will aid you and other researchers to better understand your Italian Ancestor's Archives.
At the end you will find links for Italian Proverbs

Dialects of Italy / Dialetti italiani

• The Languages of Ancient Italy - A compendium of resources on the languages spoken in Italy prior to the Roman Conquest. 
• The Dialects of Italian - Maps and descriptions of the major Italian dialect regions. Also contains a summary of the major characteristics of urban dialects from Milan to Naples by Claudio Salvucci and Anthony Schiavo.
• The Languages of Italy - find out what languages they speak in Italy. "The number of languages listed for Italy is 33. Of those, all are living languages"
• Italian Language (Italiano) - Map showing the Languages of Italy and more.
• Languages of Italy - from Wikipedia
• The Italian Language - from Encyclopedia.com
• Indice delle lingue e dei dialetti citati - Concise index of the major languages and dialects of Italy by Giovanni Flechia - Universitą di Torino 1872-73
• Italian Dialect Poetry by Luigi Bonaffini - dedicated to the great tradition of Italian Dialect Poetry, which is presently undergoing a huge revival. Includes sound clips of many of the Regional Dialects of Italy.
• Dizionario dei dialetti d'Italia - In Italian covers a variety of areas in Calabria, Como, Cozenza, Latina, Lecce, Pescara, Salerno, Siracusa, Vercelli and more added periodically.
• The Lords Prayer - in Latin, Ligurian, Milanese, Piedmontese, Venetan and others in the Gallo-Romance Subgroup. 
• Minority languages in Italy - from ask Oxford.
• Dizionario di dialetto aquilano - includes popular expressions
• Vocabolario Dialettale degli Alti Bruzii - edited by Luigi Paternostro
• Il dialetto Lucano / Dialect of Basilicata - Basilicata is also still known as Lucania, which is the original name for the Region; from Gingen Italia. 
• Poesia Dialettale Calabrese - how it is said in Calabria includes proverbs by Achille Curcio
• Calabrese Verbs - 330 verbs cross-referenced between English, Italian, Catanzarese & Cosentino
• Friulian in Italy  - second largest minority language in Italy.  (sample) (spelling)
• Genoese WebSite - written totally in the dialect of Genova.
• Genovese - Italiano
• Il Vocabolario Grģco-Italiano
• Dialetto di Lecce - contributed by Lorenzo Vantaggiato
• Il dialetto milanese italiano by meneghino - from Lombardy, history, vocabulary, verbs, expressions and more. 
• Dizionario Italiano-Napoletano - Italian to Napoletano Translations.
• An Introductory course of Neapolitan - by Carmine Colacino
• Occitan in Italy - found mainly in fifteen alpine valleys in the Piedmontese provinces of Torino & Cuneo but also in the regions of Liguria & Calabria (Guardia Piemontese, in the province of Cosenza).
• Piemontese Web Site - totally written in dialect.
• Dialetti Pistoiesi nel Bolognese - from ALTO RENO TOSCANO by Andrea Signorini.
• Piccolo Vocabolario Piemontese - Italiano
• Roman Dialect, An Introduction - includes a grammar, a glossary, a list of idiomatic expressions, and other features very well organized & presented by Andrea Pollett
• Roman dialect literature - (mostly poetry), with a parallel translation from Virtual Roma.
• Romanaccio for Beginners - teachers admitting that knowing some "romanesco" if in Roma can be useful. 
• Dizionario Romanesco -
• Romansh language - Romance language of the Rhaetian group spoken in northern Italy and Switzerland. Encyclopędia Britannica Article
• Dizionario Romagnolo - 
• Dizionario generale Santostefanese -
• Sardinian Language - includes Ditzionąriu Basilare de sa Limba Sarda
• Dizionario sardo-italiano-inglese - 
• Il dialetto di Lizzano - from the Province of Taranto in Sicily.
• The Sicilian Dialect - is comprised of words from the Arabic, Greek and Italian languages
• The Sicilian Language course - from Il Siciliano
• Dizionario Siciliano - Italiano - Sicilian to Italian.
• LINGUA SICILIANA: Siciliano Lingua Viva - Tutte le informazioni possibili e immaginabili sulla Lingua Siciliana: origini, storia, evoluzione, grammatica, fonologia, diffusione, vocabolari by Giusi La Tona
• Sicilian Language Course - online
• Lingua siciliana - Sicilian language
• Dialect of Trieste - TRIESTE MIA Yesterday and Today - Il Dialetto Triestino
• Dizionario Triestino -
• Venetian & Venet - clearly of Latin origin, its vocabulary is rich of germanic-origin words. Includes a dictionary with audio.
• Ahoo! Il 1° motore di ricerca multidialettale - Dialect Search Engine..."Scegli il Gergo" = you choose the dialect: Anconetano, Bresciano, Ciociaro, Milanese, Napoletano, Romanesco, Sardo, Torinese.