when we talk about the origins of World War I,

会更详细讲解这一部分
spoke a German dialect

讲一种德语方言
that's very similar to that spoken in Fribourg.

跟弗里堡[瑞士城市]的方言相似
Savoie was annexed in 1860,

萨瓦在1860年被割让给法国
they spoke a Savoyard

那里的人说萨瓦语
language or dialect that's very much like Piedmontese,

一种与皮埃蒙特语很相近的方言
in the case of Italy. Language is fascinating.

说到意大利语语言是很有意思的
At the time of the unification of Italy in the 1860s and '70s,

19世纪六七十年代意大利统一的时候
remembering that Metternich once said that Italy was a geographic expression,

梅特涅曾说过意大利单纯是个地理名词
the percentage of the Italian population

在意大利所有人口中
that spoke now what we consider to be Italian was about five percent;

说现代意大利语的只占百分之五
that is, the people spoke Tuscan

就是托斯卡纳语[意语的前身]