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by darkwater 1614 days ago
> That’s nonsense in Italy and Germany there are other languages/dialects too and nobody changes the name to the main common language.

Because Italy is still in its nationalist infancy, being united as big, single, 19th century cool nation for a little more than 150 years. But many of the "dialects" spoken in Italy are actually different languages with different vocabulary, grammar rules etc.