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Faetar
NAOMI NAGY
University of New Hampshire

Faetar is a Francoprovengal 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
(dipartement 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: Francoprovengal
has been virtually exterminated in France by agressive language
planning; and it is spoken by fewer than 800 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.
        Faetar phonology resembles that of neighboring dialects, but is
distinguished by the phonemic presence of schwa and a process of
variable deletion of post-tonic segments and syllables.  It differs from
Francoprovengal in having phonemic geminates word-medially and phonetic
geminates at word boundaries.  The morphology is similar to southern
French dialects, with post-verbal negation, little agreement marking,
and obligatory subject pronouns.  It is distinct in that double subject
pronouns are frequently present and reduplication is used for emphasis.
Like both French and Italian, Faetar is SVO and left-branching.

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