Romagnol
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Romagnol ( or ; ) is a Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard name for the region, Romagna. Romagnol is classified as endangered because older generations have "neglected to pass on the dialect as a native tongue to the next generation".
Key facts
- Language.name
- Romagnol
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.pronunciation
- ,
- Language.states
- Italy, San Marino
- Language.region
- Primarily Emilia-Romagna, San Marino, Marche
- Language.ethnicity
- 1.1 million (2008)
- Language.speakers
- Unknown, 430,000, assuming Romagnol and Emilian retained at same rate
- Language.date
- 2006
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic
- Language.fam3
- Latino-Faliscan
- Language.fam4
- Latinic
- Language.fam5
- Romance
- Language.fam6
- Italo-Western
- Language.fam7
- Western Romance
- Language.fam8
- Gallo-Iberian?
- Language.fam9
- Gallo-Romance
- Language.fam10
- Gallo-Italic
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Forlivese dialect
- Geographic distribution
- Western border
- Northern border
- Southern border
- History
- Literature
- 16th to 19th century
- Grammar
- Orthography
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Phonology
- Syllable structure
- Vowels
- Consonants
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Romagnol ( or ; ) is a Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard name for the region, Romagna. Romagnol is classified as endangered because older generations have "neglected to pass on the dialect as a native tongue to the next generation".
==Classification== Romagnol belongs to the Gallo-Italic family alongside Piedmontese, Ligurian and Lombard, forming with Emilian and as one of the two branches of the Emilian-Romagnol linguistic continuum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Romagnol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.