Emilian dialect

Emilian
Emiliano
Emigliân
Native to Italy
Region Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Tuscany, Liguria
Ethnicity 3.3 million (2008)[1]
Native speakers
ca. 1.3 million (2006)[2]
Dialects Bolognese, Ferrarese, Modenese, Reggiano, Parmigiano, Piacentino
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 egl
Glottolog emil1241[3]
Linguasphere 51-AAA-oka ... -okh

Emilian is a group of dialects of the Emilian-Romagnol language spoken in the area historically called Emilia, the western portion of today's Emilia-Romagna region.

There is no standardised version of Emilian.

The default word order is subject–verb–object. There are two genders, and a distinction between plural and singular. Emilian has a strong T–V distinction to distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult. It employs a considerable number of diacritics.

Classification

Emilian is a dialect of the Emilian-Romagnol language, one of the Gallo-Italic languages. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the various varieties of Emilian, as well as with the other dialect, Romagnol. The Gallo-Italic family comprises Emilian-Romagnol, Piedmontese, Ligurian and Lombard.

Dialects

Linguasphere Observatory recognises the following dialects:[4]

Other definitions include the following:

Writing system

Main article: Latin script

Emilian is written using a Latin script that has never been standardised. As a result, spelling varies widely across the dialects. The language is largely learnt orally and not taught in written form; however, the Bible was published in Emilian-Romagnol in 1865, although the work has since been lost.[5]

References

  1. ISO change request
  2. La lingua italiana, i dialetti e le lingue straniere Anno 2006
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Emiliano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. "51-AAA-ok. emiliano + romagnolo". Linguasphere.
  5. "Emiliano-Romagnolo [eml]". forum-intl.net.

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

Emilian dialect test of Wiktionary at Wikimedia Incubator
For a list of words relating to Emilian dialect, see the Emilian dialect category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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