Gallo-Italic languages
Gallo-Italic | |
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Gallo-Italian Gallo-Cisalpine Cisalpine | |
Geographic distribution | Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Monaco, France |
Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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Subdivisions |
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Glottolog | gall1279 |
Geographic distribution of undisputed Gallo-Italic varieties |
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the
Although most publications define Venetian as part of the Italo-Dalmatian branch, both Ethnologue and Glottolog group it into the Gallo-Italic languages.[6][7]
The languages are spoken also in the
in countries with Italian immigrant communities.Having a
As a result, the Gallo-Italic languages have characteristics of the
Most Gallo-Italic languages have to varying degrees given way in everyday use to regional varieties of Italian.[citation needed] The vast majority of current speakers are diglossic with Italian.
Among the regional languages of Italy, they are the most endangered, since in the main cities of their area (Milan, Turin, Genoa, Bologna) they are mainly used by the elderly.
History
Geographical distribution
Within this sub-family, the language with the largest geographic spread is Lombard, spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy, in eastern Piedmont and western Trentino. Outside Italy it is widespread in Switzerland in the canton of Ticino, and some southern valleys of the canton of the Grisons.
Piedmontese refers to the languages spoken in the region of Piedmont and the north west corner of Liguria. Historically, the Piedmontese-speaking area is the plain at the foot of the Western Alps, and ends at the entrance to the valleys where Occitan and Arpitan are spoken. In recent centuries, the language has also spread into these valleys, where it is also more widely spoken than these two languages, thus the borders of Piedmontese have reached the western alps watershed that is the border with France.
The speaking area of Ligurian or Genoese cover the territory of the former Republic of Genoa, which included much of nowadays Liguria, and some mountain areas of bordering regions near the Ligurian border, the upper valley of Roya river near Nice, in Carloforte and Calasetta in Southern Sardinia, and Bonifacio in Corsica.
Gallo-Piceno (gallo-italic of the Marches or gallico-marchigiano) is spoken in the
Isolated varieties in Sicily and in Basilicata (Southern Gallo-Italic variants)
Varieties of Gallo-Italic languages are also found in
Other dialects, attested from 13th and 14th century, are also found in Basilicata,[5] more precisely in the province of Potenza (Tito, Picerno, Pignola and Vaglio Basilicata), Trecchina, Rivello, Nemoli and San Costantino.[19]
General classification
- Gallo-Italic
- Piedmontese
- Ligurian
- Lombard
- Western Lombard dialects
- Eastern Lombard dialects
- Emilian
- Romagnol
- Gallo-Italic of Basilicata
- Gallo-Italic of Sicily
- Judeo-Italian
- (Venetian)[20][6]
Phonology
Gallo-Italic languages are often said to resemble Western Romance languages like French, Spanish, or Portuguese, and in large part it is due to their phonology. The Gallo-Italic languages differ somewhat in their phonology from one language to another, but the following are the most important characteristics, as contrasted with Italian:[21]
Vowels
- Most Gallo-Italic languages have lost all unstressed final vowels except /a/, e.g. Lombard òm "man", füm "smoke", nef "snow", fil "wire", röda "wheel" (Italian uomo, fumo, neve, filo, ruota). They remain, however, in Ligurian, with passage of -o to -u, except after n; e.g. ramu, rami, lüme, lümi "branch, branches, light, lights" (Italian ramo, rami, lume, lumi), but can, chen /kaŋ, keŋ/ "dog, dogs" (Italian cane, cani).
- u /u/ tends to evolve as ü /y/, as in French and Occitan, as in Lombard füm (Italian fumo "smoke") and Ligurian lüme, Piedmont lüm (Italian lume "light"). In some parts, e.g. southern Piedmont, this has further developed into /i/, e.g. fis (Italian fuso), lim (Italian lume "light"). In some mountainous parts of Piedmont, however (e.g. Biellese, Ossolano), this development was blocked before final /a/, leading to masculine crü (Italian crudo "raw") but feminine cru(v)a (Italian cruda).
- Metaphony is very common, affecting original open stressed è /ɛ/ and ò /ɔ/ when followed by /i/ or sometimes /o/ (operating before final vowels were dropped). This leads at first to diphthongs ie and uo, but in many dialects these progress further, typically to monophthongs i and ö /ø/. Unlike standard Italian diphthongization, this typically operates both in open and closed syllables, hence in Lombardy (where typically /i/ but not /o/ triggers metaphony) quest (Italian questo "this") vs. quist (Italian questi "these").
- Stressed closed é /e/ and sometimes ó /o/, when occurring in an open syllable (followed by at most one consonant) often diphthongized to /ei/ and /ou/, as in Old French; e.g. Piedmont beive (Italian bere < *bévere "to drink"), teila (Italian tela "cloth"), meis (Italian mese "month"). In some dialects, /ei/ developed further into either /ɛ/ or /i/, e.g. tèla /tɛla/ < *teila (Italian tela "cloth"), sira (Italian sera "evening"), mis (Italian mese "month").
- Stressed /a/ in an open syllable often fronts to ä /æ/ or è /ɛ/.
Consonants
- Lenition affects single consonants between vowels. /d/ and /ɡ/ drop; /b/ becomes /v/ or drops; /t/ and /k/ become /d/ and /ɡ/, or drop; /p/ becomes /b/, /v/, or drops. /s/ between vowels voices to /z/. /l/ between vowels sometimes becomes /r/, and this /r/ sometimes drops. Double consonants are reduced to single consonants, but not otherwise lenited. /n/ becomes velarized to /ŋ/. These changes occur before a final vowel drops. After loss of final vowels, however, further changes sometimes affect the newly final consonants, with voiced obstruents often becoming voiceless, and final /ŋ/ sometimes dropping. Liguria, especially in former times, showed particularly severe lenition, with total loss of intervocalic /t/, /d/, /ɡ/, /b/, /v/, /l/, /r/ (probably also /p/, but not /k/) in Old Genoese, hence müa (Latin matura "early"), a éia e âe? (Italian aveva le ali? "did it have wings?"; modern a l'aveiva e ae? with restoration of various consonants due to Italian influence). In Liguria and often elsewhere, collapse of adjacent vowels due to loss of an intervocalic consonant produced new long vowels, notated with a circumflex.
- /k/ and /ɡ/ preceding /i/, /e/ or /ɛ/ often assibilitated historically to /s/ and /z/, respectively. This typically does not occur in Lombardy, however, and parts of Liguria have intermediate /ts/ and /dz/, while Piemontese varieties typically have differential developments, with /k/ assibilating (sent /sɛŋt/ '100'), but /ɡ/ retaining palatalization (gent /dʒɛŋt/ 'people').
- Latin /kl/ palatalized to /tʃ/ (Piemontese ciav, Romagnol ceva 'key'); similarly /ɡj/ from Latin /ɡl/ develops as /dʒ/. In Liguria, /pj/ and /bj/ from Latin /pl/ and /bl/ are affected in the same way, e.g. Ligurian cian (Italian piano "soft") and giancu (Italian bianco "white").
- Latin /kt/ develops into /jt/, /tʃ/ or /t/, varying by locale (contrast Italian /tt/).
Lexical comparison
Numbers | Lombard | Istrian | Emilian | Piedmontese | Venetian | Ligurian |
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1 | vyŋ / vœna | uŋ / una | oŋ / ona | yŋ / 'yŋa | uŋ / una | yŋ / yna |
2 | dy | dui | du / dʌu | dʊi̯/ 'dʊe̯ | due / dɔ | dui / duɛ |
3 | tri/tre | tri | tri / trai | trɛi̯ / trɛ | tri / trɛ | trei / trɛ |
4 | kwatr | kwatro | kwatr | kwatr | kwatro | kwatrʊ |
5 | ʃiŋk | siŋkwe | θeŋk | siŋk | siŋkwe | siŋkwɛ |
6 | ses | seje | sis | ses | sie | sei |
7 | sɛt | siete | sɛt | sɛt | sɛte | sɛtɛ |
8 | vɔt | wɔto | ɔt | œt | ɔto | øtʊ |
9 | nœf | nuve | nov | nœw | nove | nøvɛ |
10 | des | ʒize | diz | des | dieze | deʒɛ |
Comparisons of the sentence: "She always closes the window before dining."
Italian (reference) | (Lei) chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenare. |
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Eastern Lombard ) |
(Lé) La sèra sèmper sö ol balcù prima de senà. |
Brescian (Eastern Lombard) | (Lé) La sèra semper sö la finèstra enacc de senà. |
Western Lombard ) |
(Lee) la sara semper sü la fenestra inans de zena. |
Western Lombard ) |
lé la sarà semper sü la finèstra inans da disnà. |
Emilian ) |
Le la sära sëimpar sö/sü la finestra (fnestra) prima da diśnä |
Bolognese (Emilian) | (Lî) la sèra sänper la fnèstra prémma ed dṡnèr. |
Cesenate (Romagnol) | (Lî) la ciöd sèmpar la fnèstra prèmma d' z'nèr. |
Riminese (Romagnol) | (Léa) la ciùd sémpre la fnèstra prèima ad z'né. |
Pesarese (Gallo-Piceno) | Lìa la chiód sénpre la fnèstra préma d' ć'nè. |
Fanese (Gallo-Piceno) | Lìa chìud sèmper la fnestra prima d' c'né. |
Piedmontese | (Chila) a sara sempe la fnestra dnans ëd fé sin-a. |
Canavese (Piedmontese) | (Chilà) a sera sémper la fnestra doant ëd far sèina. |
Ligurian |
Lê a særa sénpre o barcón primma de çenâ. |
Ligurian dialect of Sardinia ) |
Lé a sère fissu u barcun primma de çenò. |
Carrarese (transition dialect among Ligurian, Emilian and Tuscan) | Lê al sèr(e)/chiode sènpre la fnestra(paravento) prima de cena. |
Romansh | Ella clauda/serra adina la fanestra avant ch'ella tschainia. |
Friulian |
Jê e siere simpri il barcon prin di cenâ. |
Gherdëina Ladin | Ëila stluj for l vier dan cené. |
Nones (Ladin) | (Ela) la sera semper la fenestra inant zenar. () |
Solander (Ladin) | La sèra sempro (sèmper) la fenèstra prima (danànt) da cenàr. |
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Venetian |
Ła sàra/sèra senpre el balcón vanti senàr/dixnàr. |
Trentine | Èla la sèra sèmper giò/zo la fenèstra prima de zenà. |
Rovignese ) |
Gila insiera senpro el balcon preîma da senà. |
Florentine (Tuscan) | Lei la 'hiude sempre la finestra prima di cenà. |
Corsican |
Ella chjudi sempri a finestra primma di cenà. |
Sardinian | Issa tancat semper sa ventana in antis de si esser chenada. |
Salentino |
Quiddhra chiude sèmpre a fenéscia prìma cu mancia te sira. |
Sicilian | Idda chiudi sèmpri la finéstra prìma di manciari a la sira. |
French | Elle ferme toujours la fenêtre avant de dîner. |
Romanian | (Ea) închide totdeauna fereastra înainte de a cina. |
Spanish | Ella siempre cierra la ventana antes de cenar. |
Latin | (Illa) Claudit semper fenestram antequam cenet. |
See also
- Gallo-Italic of Basilicata
- Gallo-Italic of Sicily
- Languages of Italy
- List of languages in Europe
- Romance plurals
- Venetian
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