Northern Italian (traditional name in Romance linguistics), Gallo-Italian [1] or Padanian[2] (recent name) or Cisalpine (rare name) is a linguistic set with different definitions. It can be viewed:
- as a group of Italian dialects The Italian people generally refer to Italian dialects as all vernacular idioms spoken in Italy other than Italian and other languages recognised by the Italian state. As a rule of thumb, all Romance languages spoken in Italy are customarily termed as dialects. Ethnologue, the registrar of the ISO 639-3 recognises them as languages of Italy, according to traditional Romance linguistics (see Pellegrini 1975, Rohlfs 1975).
- as a sub-family A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family composed of several regional Romance languages.
- as a Romance Distribution of major language groups. Romance languages are in dark blue language A language is a particular kind of system for encoding and decoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human cognitive facility of creating and using language. Essential, according to linguist Geoffrey Hull,[2] who prefers the name "Padanian language".
Traditionally spoken in Northern Italy Italy /ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia, [iˈtalja]), officially the Italian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Italiana), is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, Southern Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Central Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south,, San Marino The Most Serene Republic of San Marino /ˌsæn məˈriːnoʊ/ (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino) is a country situated in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked enclave, completely surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over 60 km² with an estimated population of almost 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino. One of the and Monaco Monaco /ˈmɒnəkoʊ/ , officially the Principality of Monaco (French: Principauté de Monaco; Monégasque: Principatu de Múnegu; Italian: Principato di Monaco; Occitan: Principat de Mónegue), is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe on the northern central coast of the Mediterranean Sea, having a land border on three, most Northern Italian varieties have given way to Standard Italian Italian ( italiano , or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. Standard Italian, adopted by the and its regional variations. The area where Northern Italian dialects are spoken roughly corresponds to Northern Italy Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative worth, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian nation. It comprises two areas belonging to Italian First level NUTS of the European Union: (sometimes called Padania Padania is an alternative name for Po Valley. It was sparingly used until the early 1990s, when the Lega Nord political party proposed the term as a possible denomination for an autonomous Northern Italy. Since then, the term has carried strong political connotations). The vast majority of current speakers are bilingual in Standard Italian.
The southern linguistic frontier, between Northern Italian and Italian Italian ( italiano , or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. Standard Italian, adopted by the proper, is called La Spezia-Rimini line The La Spezia-Rimini Line , in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it. Romance languages on the eastern half of it include Italian and the Vlach languages (Romanian, Aromanian,.
Languages of Italy by groups[3][4][5][6] (Northern Italian in gold/ green).
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hu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GM
Artichoke derives from the . Northern Italian. articiocco, which comes from the . Italian. arcicioffo, which comes from the Old Spanish alcarchofa, which comes from the Arabic al-kharshof. Whew! The . Northern Italian. version supposedly stuck ...
