Nones (autonym: ''nònes'', , ) is a dialect named after and spoken in the
Non Valley in
Trentino
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, northern
Italy
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. It is estimated that around 30,000 people speak in Non Valley, Rabbi Valley and the low Sole Valley.
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Ethnologue
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Glottolog
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classify it as a dialect of the
Ladin language
Ladin ( , ; autonym: ; ; ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomites, Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, an ...
,
It is alternatively considered as a dialect belonging to the range of
Gallo-Italic languages
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. In central Italy they are spoken in th ...
of Northern Italy.
Further reading
*Battisti, Carlo. (1908). ''Die Nonsberger Mundart (Lautlehre)''. Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historische Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Vol. 160, 3. Vienna: Hölder.
*Di Biasi, Ilaria. (2005). ''Grammatica Noneso-Ladina''. Trento: Regione Trentino-Alto Adige.
*Fellin, Luciana. (2003). Language ideologies, language socialization, and language revival in an Italian alpine community. ''Texas Linguistics Forum'' 45: 46-57.
*Politzer, Robert L. (1967). ''Beitrag zur Phonologie der Nonsberger Mundart''. Innsbruck: Institut für Romanische Philologie der Leopold-Franzens-Universität.
*Quaresima, Enrico. (1964). ''Vocabolario anaunico e solandro, raffrontato col trentino''. Venice: Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale.
*Sandri, Ivana. (2003). ''Tratti ladini nella parlata della Val di Non''. Trento: La Grafica.
References
Languages of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Ladin language
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