Hashimi wrote:nooj wrote:....mostly they speak in 'dialetto' aka Italian languages because they left before Italian was really a thing in Italy
It's true that most of their ancestors came from Veneto and Piemonte, but I think they speak neither Venetian or Piemontese, but Italo-Australian.
The younger generations born in Australia, if they speak any at all as opposed to having assimilated into monolingualism, certainly, but I know for a fact because I've experienced it that the older generations still speak their regional languages like Venetian, Sicilian etc. Basta tendere l'orecchio!