Central Marchigiano dialect

Central Marchigiano refers to a group of Romance varieties spoken in the central part of the Marche region of Italy, in an area that includes the provinces of Ancona, Macerata and Fermo. It is one of the Central Italian dialects and forms part of a continuum that also encompasses Umbrian and Tuscan. There are notable grammatical, lexical and idiomatic differences between Marchigiano and standard Italian, but it is considered, along with the rest of Central Italian dialects, to be fairly intelligible to a speaker of Standard Italian.

According to internal variation, Marchigiano is divided into two main areas:

• The dialect of Ancona (Anconitano), to which the dialects of Osimo, Jesi and Fabriano also belong.
• The dialect of Macerata and Fermo (Fermano-Maceratese) and that of Camerino.