In the early Middle Ages, Central Italian extended north into Romagna and covered all of modern-day Lazio, Abruzzo, and Molise. Since then, however, the dialects spoken in those areas have been assimilated into

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Except for the southern fringe, the Area Mediana is characterized by a contrast between the final vowels /-u/ and /-o/ which distinguishes it from both the Area Perimediana and from

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• In part of the Area Mediana, below a line running northeast from Rome to Rieti and Norcia, the 3PLending of non-first conjugation verbs is,

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• Direct objects are often marked by the preposition a if they are animate.

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• Languages of Italy

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• Loporcaro, Michele & Paciaroni, Tania. 2016. The dialects of central Italy. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 228–245. Oxford University Press.
• Vignuzzi, Ugo. 1997. Lazio, Umbria, and the Marche. In

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