Italian language and dialect It's just from few years that Italian have been assert as instrument for daily communication: for many century, the habitual instrument for communications was the dialect. What are dialects? What's their relation with the language? Dialects are linguistic systems whose use is limited to a restricted area (a village, a city, a region), while the language is used over all national territory. Even national languages initially were dialects that later were been adopted by all the country: for example London's dialect has become the English language, Paris's dialect has become the French language. The Italian language origins and his dialects are in common: as the Italian, they came from vernacular Florentine, the Italian dialects was arise from various vernacular born in this country from the Latin transformation. Since the Italian remains exclusively a literary language, known only by cultured people, for the daily communication all the other social layers used commonly dialects. This situation became to change only after the unification of the country, in 1861. The Italian has become the national Language, known by all the population, quite slowly; indeed only from the fifties the process has speed up, on coincidence with the big social, cultural and economical transformation, and the diffusion of the television.