Cadorino dialect

Cadorino
Native to Italy
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog cado1235[1]

  Cadorino dialect

Cadorino, a dialect of Ladin,[2] is the language of Cadore, at the feet of the Dolomites in the province of Belluno. It is distinct from neighboring dialects,[3] and though it has received relatively little attention, it is important to an understanding of the linguistic history of northern Italy.[4]

Morphophonology

The principal characteristics of Cadorino are the following:

These are all characteristics of Ladin dialects.[9]

Influences

Il dialetto cadorino è un misto di etrusco, di latino, di greco, di slavo, di longobardo, di celtico-friulano, di tedesco, di francese: tutti regali che hanno fatto a noi, come all’altre parti d’Italia, quei graziosi nemici che sono venuti di quando in quando a visitarci.
— Antonio Ronzon, Almanacco Cadorino 1873–1874

Cadorino is spoken in what had once been Paleo-Venetian territory. Toponyms show a strong Celtic presence.[10] There was a Friulian presence around 500 CE, and Cadorino preserves various particularities of Friulian.[4] Over the centuries (Modern) Venetian has expanded into the Cadorino area. While other Ladin varieties were profoundly influenced by Tyrolian dialects of German, these had relatively little influence on Cadorino, which was much more affected by Venetian.[5][11]

Recognition

Thanks to legislation on the recognition of historical linguistic minorities (Law 482/1999), Cadore is recognized by the province of Belluno along with the dialects of Comelico, Agordino, the high valley of Cordevole, and the Val di Zoldo.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cadorino". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ David Dalby, 1999/2000, The Linguasphere register of the world’s languages and speech communities. Observatoire Linguistique, Linguasphere Press. Volume 2. Oxford.
  3. ↑ Giovan Battista Pellegrini, I dialetti ladino-cadorini, Miscellanea di studi alla memoria di Carlo Battisti, Firenze, Istituto di studi per l'Alto Adige, 1979
  4. 1 2 Giovan Battista Pellegrini, La genesi del retoromanzo (o ladino), Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 1991
  5. 1 2 Giovan Battista Pellegrini, Studi storico-linguistici bellunesi e alpini, Archivio storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, 1992
  6. ↑ E.g. àuto (Italian alto) 'tall'
  7. ↑ E.g. liéto (It. letto) 'read'
  8. ↑ from Latin mihi and tibi
  9. ↑ Loredana Corrà, docente di linguistica all'Università di Padova, 'Una breve nota linguistica'
  10. ↑ Anna Marinetti, Aspetti della romanizzazione linguistica nella Cisalpina orientale, Patria diversis gentibus una? Unità politica e identità etniche nell’Italia antica, pp. 147-169, PISA, ETS, 2008
  11. ↑ ""Luigi Guglielmi, I dialetti ladini bellunesi e i limiti della dialettometria - A proposito dell’articolo di Roland Bauer" (Istituto Ladin de la Dolomites - Borca di Cadore)" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-13.

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