Identità linguistica di una lingua minoritaria alloglotta della Puglia (Italia meridionale) : il francoprovenzale di Faeto.

Michela Russo (1, 2, 3) , Fabio Aprea (4)

1 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage
2 UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
3 UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
4 Universität Wien = University of Vienna

Faetar is a Franco-Provençal language spoken in a small community near Foggia, in southern Italy (in Apulia region), which owes its origin to Franco-Provençal settlements dating back to the 13th century. Franco-Provençal, although it remains quite vital in Italy, is considered today an endangered language, which UNESCO has included in its Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. Through an auditory and spectrographic analysis of different data, we will interpret many phonetic features of the Franco-Provençal spoken in Faeto, and we will compare them with Franco-Provençal acoustic data collected in France (which are close to the Faetar geograph- ical area), as well as with French acoustic data. The aim is to assess the synchronic variety of southern Italian Faetar, in relation to the Franco-Provençal variety of France, and to identify the phonetic features belonging to the two varieties in contact: the southern Italo-Romance varieties and the Franco-Provençal variety. This is to build a diachronic and synchronic grammar of this unique blend dialect shown by language contact.

Mots clés: Faetar; Franco-Provençal; Italo-Romance; vowel system; nasalization

Domaines: Linguistique

Michela Russo, Fabio Aprea. Identità linguistica di una lingua minoritaria alloglotta della Puglia (Italia meridionale) : il francoprovenzale di Faeto.. Romito, Luciano et al. (éd.). La variazione linguistica in condizioni di contatto : contesti acquisizionali, lingue, dialetti e minoranze in Italia e nel mondo, Collana di Studi AISV (Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce), Vol. 7, Officinaventuno, pp.97-123, 2021, eISBN: 978–88–9765–749–1, ISSN: 2612–226X. ⟨hal-03363395⟩