Cadorino, a dialect of
Ladin
Ladin may refer to:
*Ladin language, a language in northern Italy, often classified as a Rhaeto-Romance language
*Ladin people, the inhabitants of the Dolomite Alps region of northern Italy
See also
*Laden (disambiguation)
*Ladino (disambiguati ...
, is the language of
Cadore
Cadore (; lld, Ciadòre; vec, italic=yes, Cadór or, rarely, ''Cadòria''; german: italic=yes, Cadober or ''Kadober''; Sappada German: ''Kadour''; , at the feet of the
Dolomites
The Dolomites ( it, Dolomiti ; Ladin: ''Dolomites''; german: Dolomiten ; vec, Dołomiti : fur, Dolomitis), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form pa ...
in the province of
Belluno
Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region ...
. It is distinct from neighboring dialects, and though it has received relatively little attention, it is important to an understanding of the linguistic history of northern Italy.
[Giovan Battista Pellegrini, La genesi del retoromanzo (o ladino), Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 1991]
Morphophonology
The principal characteristics of Cadorino are the following:
*
Palatalization of ''*ka, *ga'' to ''č, ǧ''.
* Retention of final ''-s'' in verbal 2nd-person singular.
[Giovan Battista Pellegrini, Studi storico-linguistici bellunesi e alpini, Archivio storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, 1992]
*
Velarization
Velarization is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, velarization is transcribed by one of four di ...
of ''*l'' to ''u'' before a consonant.
*
Vowel breaking
In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong.
Types
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned or conditioned. It may be triggered by the presence of ...
of "è" in closed syllables.
* The inflection "òu" of the passive participle of verbs of the first conjugation.
* Retention of a case distinction in 1sg and 2sg pronouns (''ió'' and ''tū'' in the nominative, compared to ''mi'' and ''ti'' in
Venetian
Venetian often means from or related to:
* Venice, a city in Italy
* Veneto, a region of Italy
* Republic of Venice (697–1797), a historical nation in that area
Venetian and the like may also refer to:
* Venetian language, a Romance language s ...
).
These are all characteristics of Ladin dialects.
Influences
Cadorino is spoken in what had once been
Paleo-Venetian territory. Toponyms show a strong
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
*Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Foo ...
presence. There was a Friulian presence around 500 CE, and Cadorino preserves various particularities of
Friulian.
[ 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.]
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 , Agordino, the high valley of Cordevole, and the Val di Zoldo
Val di Zoldo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Belluno in the Italian region Veneto
it, Veneto (man) it, Veneta (woman)
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.
Notes
Bibliography
* Ascoli Graziadio Isaia, Saggi ladini, "Archivio Glottologico Italiano", I, 1873.
* Giovan Battista Pellegrini, I dialetti ladino-cadorini, Miscellanea di studi alla memoria di Carlo Battisti, Firenze, Istituto di studi per l'Alto Adige, 1979, pp. 245–265
* Giovan Battista Pellegrini, Il museo Archeologico cadorino e il Cadore preromano e romano, pp. 215–238, Magnifica Comunità di Cadore – Regione Veneto, 1991
* Giovan Battista Pellegrini, La genesi del retoromanzo (o ladino), Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 1991
* Carlo Battisti, Prefazione al vocabolario ampezzano di A. Majoni del 1929
* Loredana Corrà, Una breve nota linguistica
* Giovan Battista Pellegrini, Raccolta di saggi lessicali in area veneta e alpina, Centro Studio per la dialettologia italiana “Oronzo Parlàngeli”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 1993
* Giovan Battista Pellegrini, Studi storico-linguistici bellunesi e alpini, Archivio storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, 1992
*Anna Marinetti, Aspetti della romanizzazione linguistica nella Cisalpina orientale, Patria diversis gentibus una? Unità politica e identità etniche nell’Italia antica, PISA, ETS, 2008
*Maria Teresa Vigolo – Paola Barbierato, Convergenze cadorino-friulane in ambito toponomastico, Atti del secondo convegno di Toponomastica Friulana (Udine 22 e 23 novembre 2002), in Quaderni di toponomastica friulana, Società Filologica Friulana, Udine 2007.
External links
Cadorino poetry
Istituto Ladin de la Dolomites
Algudnei - spazi per la cultura ladina del Comelico
Comelico Cultura - Sezion ladina dal Comelgo
Union Ladina d'Oltreciusa
Union ladina del Cadore de Medo
Il ladino cadorino nei documenti giuridici tardo medievali e nelle parlate odierne
La Carta dei Dialetti d'Italia elaborata da Giovan Battista Pellegrini (Pisa, Pacini editore 1977)
Dizionario della gente di Lozzo - La parlata ladina di Lozzo di Cadore
Femenes - Vita quotidiana delle donne ladine nel Cadore di un tempo
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