Regional Italian
Tuscany
### Tuscany

In Tuscany and especially in [Florence](/wiki/Florence "Florence"), the [Tuscan gorgia](/wiki/Tuscan_gorgia "Tuscan gorgia") is very well known. That is, the [lenition](/wiki/Lenition "Lenition") of the occlusive consonants in the post\-vocalic position, including at the beginning of the word if the previous word ends up by vowel: *la casa* "the house" , even to its total disappearance. Also phonological in nature are forms without the diphthong *uo* of Standard Italian (*ova*, *scola*, *bona*, *foco* instead of *uova*, *scuola*, *buona*, *fuoco*), while in the syntax a tripartite system of demonstrative adjectives is in use: *questo* ("this") to indicate something close to the speaker (first person), *codesto* (lost in other varieties) for something close to the contact person (second person), or *quello* "that" for something far from both (third person). A Tuscan stereotype is use of forms resembling the impersonal for the first person plural: *(noi) si va* instead of *noi andiamo* ("we are going"), past tense *(noi) si è andati*, and use of *te* rather than *tu* as second person singular subject pronoun: *Te che fai stasera?* rather than *Tu che fai stasera?* ("What are you doing tonight?"). Also typical of several areas including Tuscany is the use of the article before a female given name (*la Elena*, *la Giulia*); such use passed from Tuscany to other regions when used before the surname of well\-known people, particularly of the past (*il [Manzoni](/wiki/Alessandro_Manzoni "Alessandro Manzoni")*). In the vocabulary there is the use of *spenge* instead of *spegne* ("extinguishes") or words like *balocco* instead of *giocattolo* ("toy"), *busse* instead of *percosse* or *botte* ("beatings"), *rena* instead of *sabbia* ("sand"), *cencio* instead of *panno* ("cloth").

The Tuscan historical dialects (including [Corsican](/wiki/Corsican_language "Corsican language")) belong to the same linguistic system as Italian, with few substantial morphological, syntactic or lexical differences compared to the standard language. As a result, unlike further from Tuscany in Italy, there are no major obstacles to mutual intelligibility of the local Romance languages and Regional Italian.


What happens when a word ends with a vowel?