Faetar

E111579

Faetar is a rare Romance language variety spoken by a small Franco-Provençal community in southern Italy, notable for preserving archaic features within an Italo-Romance environment.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Faetar canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language variety ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
minority language ⓘ
spoken language ⓘ
contactWith Apulian dialects ⓘ
Italian ⓘ
linked to: Italian language

Neapolitan ⓘ
documentedBy field linguists ⓘ
documentedIn descriptive grammars ⓘ
phonological studies ⓘ
sociolinguistic surveys ⓘ
endangermentStatus severely endangered ⓘ
geographicalSetting southern Italy ⓘ
linked to: Southern Italy
hasAlternativeName Faetano ⓘ
Faetar Franco-Provençal ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Apulian dialects ⓘ
Italian ⓘ
linked to: Italian language
hasMorphosyntacticInfluenceFrom Italo-Romance ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersStatus small community ⓘ
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Italian ⓘ
linked to: Italian language
hasResearchField Romance linguistics ⓘ
dialectology ⓘ
language contact studies ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticStatus low prestige ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunityType Franco-Provençal community ⓘ
hasTypologicalFeature mixed Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance traits ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet
historicalMigrationOrigin France ⓘ
western Alps region ⓘ
intergenerationalTransmission declining ⓘ
languageFamily Romance languages ⓘ
linguisticEnvironment Italo-Romance environment ⓘ
originatedFrom Franco-Provençal settlers ⓘ
preservesFeatureType archaic Romance features ⓘ
relatedTo Franco-Provençal ⓘ
spokenInCountry Italy ⓘ
spokenInProvince Foggia ⓘ
spokenInRegion Apulia ⓘ
spokenInTown Celle di San Vito ⓘ
Faeto ⓘ
standardizationStatus not fully standardized ⓘ
subfamily Gallo-Romance ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to Italian ⓘ
usedInDomain home communication ⓘ
informal contexts ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Franco-Provençal → hasDialects → Faetar ⓘ
subject linked to: Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)
Faeto → hasMinorityLanguage → Faetar ⓘ