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Encyclopedia > Ticinese
Ticinese (ticines, ticinées)
Spoken in: Switzerland
Region: Europe
Total speakers: ???
Ranking: ???
Genetic classification: Indo-European

 Italic
  Romance
   Italo-Western
    Western
     Gallo-Iberian
      Gallo-Romance
       Gallo-Italic
        Lombard
         Ticinese
World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... This page attempts to present a list of languages by total native speakers. ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language group. ... The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages or New Latin Languages, are a subset of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Latin dialects spoken by the common people in what is known as Latin Europe (Italian/Portuguese/Spanish Europa latina, French Europe latine) and Romania as Vulgar Latin... The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French, Oïl languages, Catalan, and Occitan, among other languages. ... The term Lombard (or Lombardic) language refers to a group of related dialects spoken in Southern Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons) and Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions). ...

Official status
Official language of: -
Regulated by: -
Language codes
ISO 639-1 -
ISO 639-2 roa
SIL LMO
See also: Language – List of languages

Ticinese (ticines, ticinées) is a common denomination for Lombard language varieties spoken in Canton Ticino (Tessin). ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. ... The term Lombard (or Lombardic) language refers to a group of related dialects spoken in Southern Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons) and Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions). ... A variety of a language is a form that differs from other forms of the language systematically and coherently. ... Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland, and almost entirely Italian-speaking (except the German-speaking municipality of Bosco/Gurin). ...


The Ticinese koiné (Italian: koinè ticinese) is the Western Lombard koiné used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the koinè itself, as e.g. Leventinese, etc.) when communicating with speakers of other Lombard dialects of Ticino, the Grisons or Italian Lombardy. Western Lombard is a Lombard language variety spoken in Italy and Switzerland. ... The Lombards or Longobards or Langobards were a Germanic tribe in history. ... Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland, and almost entirely Italian-speaking (except the German-speaking municipality of Bosco/Gurin). ... Graubünden or Grisons (German: Graubünden; Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun; French: Grisons), is the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. ... Lombardy (in Italian Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. ...


Links

Some video and audio documents (interviews, recordings, etc. of writers from Ticino) in Ticinese varieties can be found at the following site: RTSI: Acquarelli popolari (http://www.rtsi.ch/scrittori/) (please notice that the metalanguage of this site is Italian, and that some of the interviews are in Italian rather than in Ticinese Lombard). Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland, and almost entirely Italian-speaking (except the German-speaking municipality of Bosco/Gurin). ... Metalanguage in linguistics is a language used to make statements about language (the object language). ... The term Lombard (or Lombardic) language refers to a group of related dialects spoken in Southern Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons) and Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions). ...


Bibliography

Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia, LSI – Lessico dialettale della Svizzera italiana, Bellinzona 2004.


Comrie, Bernard, Matthews, Stephen and Polinsky, Maria: The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World. Rev. ed., New York 2003.


Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.): Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Vol. 1, 2000.


Lurà, Franco: Il dialetto del Mendrisiotto, Mendrisio–Chiasso 1987.


Lurati, Ottavio: Dialetto e italiano regionale nella Svizzera italiana, Lugano 1976.


Petrini, Dario: La koinè ticinese (Romanica Helvetica vol. 105), Bern 1988. VSI – Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana, Lugano / Bellinzona 1952–

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Ticino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1256 words)
Between 1798 and 1803, during the Helvetic Republic, the districts of Bellinzona and Lugano were separate cantons, but in 1803 the two were unified to form the canton of Ticino that joined the Swiss Confederation as a full member in the same year.
During the Napoelonic Wars, many Ticinese (as was the case for other Swiss) served in Swiss military units allied with the French.
In oral communication Western Lombard (Ticinese) varieties, although receding in favour of Italian (especially in the cities of Lugano, Ascona and Locarno and among the younger generations), are still well preserved.
Lombard (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1139 words)
The Lombard variety with the oldest literary tradition (dating back to the thirteenth century) is that of Milan, where nowadays Milanese, the native Lombard variety of the area, has almost completely been superseded by Italian.
Ticinese is a comprehensive denomination for the Lombard varieties spoken in Canton Ticino (Tessin), while the Ticinese koiné is the Western Lombard koiné used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the koinè itself) when communicating with speakers of other Lombard dialects of Ticino, the Grisons or Italian Lombardy.
The orthography is a compromise between traditional orthographies and a recently proposed unified system for all Lombard varieties, with phonetic transcriptions (when given) in IPA.
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