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Friulian language
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dialect of the Rhaetian language
- In Rhaetian dialects
dialects are Engadine, Ladin, and Friulian.
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…reaching the Piave River—is the Friulian dialect area, centred around the city of Udine, with some 800,000 speakers. This dialect is much closer to Italian than are Ladin and Romansh, and it is often claimed to be a Venetian dialect. Venetian proper has gained ground at the expense of Friulian…
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languages of Italy
- In Italy: Languages of Italy
… in the province of Trieste; Friulian (another Rhaetian dialect) and Sardinian, spoken by the two largest linguistic minorities in Italy, received official recognition in 1992. Linguistic minorities persisting in the Alps are, broadly speaking, the result of migratory movements from neighbouring countries or changes in the borderline. The French and…
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