Emilian (emigliân)

Emilian is a member of the Gallo-Italic branch of the Romance language family. It is spoken by about 400,000 people mainly in Emilia-Romagna, a region of northern Italy, and also in the Italian regions of Lombardy, Tuscany and Veneto.

Dialects of Emilian include Manutan, Vogherese, Piacentino, Parmesan, Reggiano, Modenese, Mirandolese, Bolognese, Ferrarese, Carrerese, Lunigiano, and possibly Massese, Casalasco and Comacchiese.

Emilian is closely related to Romagnol, Piedmontese, Ligurian and Lombard. There is some degree of mutual intelligibility between these languages.

These is no standard way to write Emilian, and speakers of each dialect have developed their own ways of writing the language.

Emilian alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Emilian Details of the Emilian alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)

Notes

gli is used only in Bolognese and in Italian loanwords
g-l is used only in Bolognese
sc = [sk] ([ʃ] only before e and i in Italian loanwords)
c = [ʧ] before e or i, [k] elsewhere
g = [ʤ] before e or i, [g] elsewhere
k, w, x and y are also used, but only in loanwords and in foreign names.

Sample text (Emilian)

Tutt j esr uman i nasn libbr e conpagn in dignitâ e in dritt. Lour ij ên dotâ d ragion/razon e d bon sens, es i gh àn da conportârs (v)ûn con qlʼâ(l)tr inđ un spírit da bön fradëj.

Hear a recording of this text by Ivan Venturini

IPA transcription (Piacentino dialect)

['tyt jes̠ʁ y'mã i nas̠ɐ̃ 'libʁ e kũ'paɲ ĩ diɲi'tɛ e ĩ dʁit. 'luːʁ i jɛn du'tɛ d ʁɐ'dʒɔ̃ e d bɔ̃ s̠ə̃j̃s̠ | es̠ i 'gã dɐ kũpuʁ'tɛːs̠ 'võj̃ kõ 'klɛːtʁ ins̠ ũ 's̠piːʁit dɐ bɔ̃ fʁɐ'dɛj]

IPA transcription (Bolognese dialect)

['tot jɛːs̠r u'mɐŋ i 'nɐːs̠en 'lebr e kuŋ'pɐːɲ in diɲi'tɛː e in 'dret. 'lɐwr i jen du'tɛː d rɐ'z̠ɐŋ e d bɐŋ 's̠æŋs̠ | es̠ i 'gɐn dɐ kuŋpur'tɛːrs̠ oŋ koŋ 'klɛːtr int un 's̠piːrit dɐ boŋ frɐ'diː]

IPA transcription (Parmesan dialect)

['tu˧t je˧s̠ʁ u'mãŋ i 'naː˧˥s̠õn 'li˧bʁ e kõm'paː˧˥ɲ ĩn diɲi'tɛ˧ e ĩn 'dʁi˧t. 'loː˧˥ʁ i jẽn do'tɛ˧ d ʁɐ'dʒõ˧ŋ e d bõn 's̠ẽː˧˥ns̠ | es̠ i 'gã˧n dɐ kõmpoʁ'tɛː˧˥ʁos̠ 'võ˧ŋ kõŋ 'klɛː˧˥tʁ int ũn 's̠piː˧˥ʁit dɐ bõɱ fʁɐ'deː˧˥j]

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Some information supplied by Michael Peter Füstumum and Ivan Venturini

Sample video

Information about Emilian | Numbers

Links

Information about Emilian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilian_language
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_emiliano-romagnola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilian_dialect
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilianische_Sprache

Romance languages

Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Dalmatian, Emilian, Extremaduran, Fala, Franco-Provençal, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallo, Gascon, Genoese, Guernésiais, Istro-Romanian, Istriot, Italian, Jèrriais, Ladino, Ladin, Ligurian, Lombard, Lorrain, Megleno-Romanian, Mirandese, Moldovan, Monégasque, Mozarabic, Neapolitan, Occitan, Occitan (Auvergnat), Occitan (Languedocien), Occitan (Limousin), Occitan (Provençal), Picard, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Romagnol, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Valencian, Venetian, Walloon

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 13.03.26

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