Wikitongues | WIKITONGUES: Paolo speaking Emilian @Wikitongues | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
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This video was recorded by Paolo in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Emilian is spoken by as many as 1.3 million people, primarily in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The language is part of the broader Emilian-Romagnol dialect continuum, which includes Bolognese, Ferrarese, Modenese, Parmigiano, Piacentino, and Reggiano. Paolo's variety of Emilian is spoken between the cities of Castellarano, Sassuolo and Rubiera. Though more widely used as an oral language, Emilian is also expressed in the form of poetry and more recently, new media. A grammar and lexicography have also been published. It is written with the Latin alphabet, albeit without a standard orthography.
It is a Gallo-Romance language within the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
Translation:
Hello, I am Pavel and I speak Emiliani, specifically the dialect of the province of Modena and Reggio, the heart of the Emiliani region. Emiliani is spoken in the province of Modena, Reggio, Parma, and in the western part of the province of Bologna, west of the Rein river, which flows nearby Casalecchio. To the east of the Rein it begins to be spoken a hybrid language with Rumagnol, while to the west of the Taro river, which is a river nearby Parma, it begins to be spoken a hybrid language with Lombard.
Emiliani is recognized by the UN as a distinct language, part of the Gallo-Romance family of languages, together with French and all language of Northern Italy aside from Veneto. Furthermore, all languages above the LaSpezia-Rimini line are part of the Western Romance world, therefore are more related to Spanish, Catalan, French, and Portuguese than to Italian, which is basically the Tuscan language.
Gallo-italic is a family of languages which took shape from the overlap of Latin over Celtic, with the Roman conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. Little by little, the Gauls, and other tribes such as the Friniates and the Apuans started acquiring and speaking Latin, and what came out are the languages spoken to these day in Northern Italy, which linguists cll Gallo-Italic.
Unfortunately our language in endangered. This is the result of 4 factors.
The first factor is that the Italian state has never done anything to preserve our culture and language, mo it wants us to believe that our language is a dialect of Italian, when all the world, all the scholars, and all institutions worldwide recognize the languages spoken from South Tyrol to Sardinia as distinct languages, distinct from Italian. Under this point of view, are we going to consider even French and Spanish dialects of Italian?
The second factor, which is the most important one, is that our children grow up in an educational environment where there isn’t any place for local languages, and where Italian possesses the absolute monopoly. Therefore, the youth grows up from when they are little children to when they are twenty years old in an environment when only Italy is spoken, and where the local language is not even taken into consideration.
Consequently, in 20 years you form a generation of mono linguistic people, ignorant of their roots and of their cultural heritage. The only place where the youth can hear the local language is inside their home and from old people.
The advent of mainstream television made Italian enter inside our homes, which up until that time had remained the stronghold of local languages, and a lot of people learned Italian thanks to the television. Furthermore, immigration of Southern Italians forced Emiliani to use Italian as lingua franca.
Fortunately, we don’t want to reject our identity, but we are determined to preserve our tradition and the diversity of the world.
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This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact hello@wikitongues.org.
This video was recorded by Paolo in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Emilian is spoken by as many as 1.3 million people, primarily in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The language is part of the broader Emilian-Romagnol dialect continuum, which includes Bolognese, Ferrarese, Modenese, Parmigiano, Piacentino, and Reggiano. Paolo's variety of Emilian is spoken between the cities of Castellarano, Sassuolo and Rubiera. Though more widely used as an oral language, Emilian is also expressed in the form of poetry and more recently, new media. A grammar and lexicography have also been published. It is written with the Latin alphabet, albeit without a standard orthography.
It is a Gallo-Romance language within the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
Translation:
Hello, I am Pavel and I speak Emiliani, specifically the dialect of the province of Modena and Reggio, the heart of the Emiliani region. Emiliani is spoken in the province of Modena, Reggio, Parma, and in the western part of the province of Bologna, west of the Rein river, which flows nearby Casalecchio. To the east of the Rein it begins to be spoken a hybrid language with Rumagnol, while to the west of the Taro river, which is a river nearby Parma, it begins to be spoken a hybrid language with Lombard.
Emiliani is recognized by the UN as a distinct language, part of the Gallo-Romance family of languages, together with French and all language of Northern Italy aside from Veneto. Furthermore, all languages above the LaSpezia-Rimini line are part of the Western Romance world, therefore are more related to Spanish, Catalan, French, and Portuguese than to Italian, which is basically the Tuscan language.
Gallo-italic is a family of languages which took shape from the overlap of Latin over Celtic, with the Roman conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. Little by little, the Gauls, and other tribes such as the Friniates and the Apuans started acquiring and speaking Latin, and what came out are the languages spoken to these day in Northern Italy, which linguists cll Gallo-Italic.
Unfortunately our language in endangered. This is the result of 4 factors.
The first factor is that the Italian state has never done anything to preserve our culture and language, mo it wants us to believe that our language is a dialect of Italian, when all the world, all the scholars, and all institutions worldwide recognize the languages spoken from South Tyrol to Sardinia as distinct languages, distinct from Italian. Under this point of view, are we going to consider even French and Spanish dialects of Italian?
The second factor, which is the most important one, is that our children grow up in an educational environment where there isn’t any place for local languages, and where Italian possesses the absolute monopoly. Therefore, the youth grows up from when they are little children to when they are twenty years old in an environment when only Italy is spoken, and where the local language is not even taken into consideration.
Consequently, in 20 years you form a generation of mono linguistic people, ignorant of their roots and of their cultural heritage. The only place where the youth can hear the local language is inside their home and from old people.
The advent of mainstream television made Italian enter inside our homes, which up until that time had remained the stronghold of local languages, and a lot of people learned Italian thanks to the television. Furthermore, immigration of Southern Italians forced Emiliani to use Italian as lingua franca.
Fortunately, we don’t want to reject our identity, but we are determined to preserve our tradition and the diversity of the world.
Help us caption & translate this video!
amara.org/v/CZlSW
