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FAETAR Faetar is a Francoprovençal dialect spoken in two villages in Apulia (Faeto and Celle di San Vito), in southern Italy. Faetar came to be spoken in these villages due to a migration from southeastern France (département of Ain) around the 14th century. An unwritten language, it has incorporated aspects of Apulian Italian dialects during its 600 years of contact. It is a doubly endangered language: Francoprovençal has been virtually exterminated in France by aggressive language planning; and it is spoken by fewer than 600 people in Apulia due to a mass exodus from rural areas. It survives in emigrant pockets in Italy, Switzerland, the U.S.A., and Canada. Current research project Writing a pedagogical grammar (with an online version in prep. as well) of the endangered language Faetar, spoken in the village of Faeto, in southern Italy. This project builds on the material described in Faetar, a reference grammar published in 2001 by Lincom Europa. (ordering information) See pictures of Faeto from my trip in Summer 2004. Page 1 (the town) | Page 2 (FP festival) | Page 3 (making the website) Other research Please see my c.v. My University of Pennsylvania dissertation, "Language contact and language change in the Faetar speech community," is available for purchase. Ordering information. |
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