Marino dialect

Marino dialect
Dialettu de Marini
Native to	Italy
Region	Marino, Lazio
Native speakers	30.000
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Italo-Romance Romanesco Central-Northern Latian Dialects of the Roman Castles Marino dialect
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The Marino dialect^[1] is a dialect belonging to the dialects of the Roman Castles in the linguistic family of Central Italian and, specifically, the Central-Northern Latian dialect. It is spoken within the metropolitan city of Rome in the city of Marino and its territory in the Alban Hills.

Marino is located south of the "Ancona-Rome Line," an ideal dividing line drawn by glottologists to divide the northern Etruscan and Tuscan area of influence from the southern area, which remained tied to Sabine and Latin influence.^[2] Despite its long oral tradition, Marinese seems to be losing ground in favour of the Roman dialect, reduced more to "parlance" and the use of characteristic expressions, a phenomenon similar to all the Castellan dialects and those of centers in the southern quadrant of the metropolitan city of Rome and the Lazio coast.^[3]

The Marino dialect does not have legal recognition (Law No. 482 of December 15, 1999)^[4] nor is it regulated by a regulating body, but it was studied for the first time by the Marinese historian Girolamo Torquati in 1886,^[5] at the same time that a dictionary of the most frequently used words in the dialect was compiled.