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A person in Venice who only speaks the Venetian language wouldn't be able to communicate with a Sicilian who only speaks the Sicilian language. Before Italian unification in 1871, would a Venetian and a Sicilian feel like they had anything in common with each other?

by /u/Dtnoip30 in /r/AskHistorians

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