Piedmontese

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Piedmontese is a Romance language spoken primarily in Italy’s Piedmont region, distinct from standard Italian and recognized for its own rich literary and cultural tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gallo-Italic language
Romance language
minority language
regional language
closelyRelatedTo Emilian-Romagnol
Ligurian
Lombard
countryOrRegion Italy
Piedmont
distinctFrom French
Italian
Occitan
hasAlternativeName Piemontese
Piemontèis
surface form: Piemontèis language
hasCulturalTradition poetry
prose literature
theatre
hasDialects Alessandrino Piedmontese
Astigiano Piedmontese
Biellese Piedmontese
Canavese Piedmontese
Cuneese Piedmontese
Monferrino Piedmontese
Novarese Piedmontese
Turinese Piedmontese
Vercellese Piedmontese
hasDigitalPresence Piedmontese self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wikipedia edition in Piedmontese
hasEndonym Piemontèis
hasGenderCategory feminine
masculine
hasGrammarType subject–verb–object basic word order
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom French
Italian language
surface form: Italian

Latin
Occitan
hasMorphologicalFeature clitic subject pronouns
partitive clitics
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasOfficialStatus protected language at regional level
hasOrganization Academia piemontèisa
Academia piemontèisa
surface form: Centro Studi Piemontesi
hasPhonologicalFeature frequent use of palatal consonants
vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
hasStandardizationEffort orthographic norms promoted by language associations
hasStatus endangered language
hasSyntacticFeature obligatory subject clitics in many contexts
historicalDevelopment developed from spoken Latin in the Piedmont area
languageCodeISO_639_3 pms
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
recognizedAs regional language in Piedmont
recognizedBy Piedmont Regional Council
spokenIn Alessandria
Argentina
Asti
Biella
Brazil
Cuneo
France
Liguria
Lombardy
Vercelli
surface form: Novara

Turin
United States of America
surface form: United States

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
Vercelli
subfamily Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Gallo-Italic languages

Gallo-Romance languages
Italic languages
Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Western Romance languages
taughtIn some schools in Piedmont
usedAs language of everyday communication in some rural areas
usedIn folk music
local media
local newspapers
radio programs
television programs
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Ligurian language closelyRelatedTo Piedmontese
this entity surface form: Piedmontese language
Lombard closelyRelatedTo Piedmontese
Italian language hasDialects Piedmontese
Piedmontese hasDigitalPresence Piedmontese self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wikipedia edition in Piedmontese
Emilian-Romagnol hasDistinctFrom Piedmontese
this entity surface form: Piedmontese language
Gallo-Romance languages hasPart Piedmontese
this entity surface form: Piedmontese language
Judeo-Italian hasPart Piedmontese
this entity surface form: Judeo-Turinese
Vivaro-Alpine neighboringLanguage Piedmontese
Piedmont regionalLanguage Piedmontese