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    Friulian (/friˈuːliən/ free-OO-lee-ən) or Friulan (natively About this soundfurlan or marilenghe; Italian: friulano; German: Furlanisch; Slovene: furlanščina) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian. It is sometimes called Eastern Ladin since it shares the same roots as Ladin, but over the centuries, it has diverged under the influence of surrounding languages, including German, Italian, Venetian, and Slovene. Documents in Friulian are attested from the 11th century and poetry and literature date as far back as 1300. By the 20th century, there was a revival of interest in the language.

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    Romanian/Italian mix

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    Friulan is a gallo italic language, althogh the region is not far from Balkan and Germanic countries, its dialect is more similar to Occitan, the ancient language spoken in south france, Catalan and so on.

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    To my ears it sounds very PanItalian, but that was expected, just like Catalan sounding like Castilian (despite being much closer to Central Occitan).

    Quote Originally Posted by Aivap View Post
    Friulan is a gallo italic language, althogh the region is not far from Balkan and Germanic countries, its dialect is more similar to Occitan, the ancient language spoken in south france, Catalan and so on.
    Quite right. But more specifically I'd say that Rhaeto-Romance languages (i.e. Rumantsch, Ladino, with Friulan being the biggest one in the family) are the residual continuation along the Southern Alpine slopes of Franco-Provençal (so-called "Arpitan"), the group of dying-out dialects that used to be spoken in Savoy, Vallée-d'Aoste, Western Switzerland, Lyon etc., and that used to combine rather French phonetics with more or less Occitan morphologies.

    About that sample of Friulan: yes, it sounds extremely Italian (except I cannot grasp much of it), but I've noticed that it makes plurals with an 's ("patatas", easy to understand) whereas all Italian dialects (and standard Italian of course) make plurals by changing the final vowel.

    Another noticeable feature is that Friulan, like all Rhaeto-Romance languages, ignores what you call "vocale turbate" (ü, ø) (same difference between Occitan and Catalan).

    There is in France an Occitan dialect that should be very similar to Friulan: nissart, as it used to be spoken in Nice, that was basically an Eastern Provençal dialect that underwent strong Italian influences cause it borrowed from Piedmontese a large part of its vocabulary. Scometto sarebbe mutualmente intelligibile col Furlani.

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