Nones (autonym: ''nònes'', german: Nonsberger Mundart) is a dialect named after and spoken in the
Non Valley
The Non Valley ( it, Val di Non or ; Nones: ''Val de Nòn''; german: Nonstal or ; la, Anaunia) is a valley mainly in the Trentino. Morever, the (), a subregion, consists of three primarily German-speaking municipalities in the province of Sout ...
in
Trentino
Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...
, northern
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
. It is estimated that around 30,000 persons speak in Non Valley, Rabbi Valley and the low Sole Valley.
Some linguists argue that it is a dialect of the
Ladin language, because it shares many similarities. It is alternatively considered as a dialect belonging to the range of
Gallo-Italic languages
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy. They are Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. Although most publications def ...
of Northern Italy.
Further reading
*Battisti, Carlo. (1908). ''Die Nonsberger Mundart (Lautlehre)''. Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historische Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Vol. 160, 3. Vienna: Hölder.
*Di Biasi, Ilaria. (2005). ''Grammatica Noneso-Ladina''. Trento: Regione Trentino-Alto Adige.
*Fellin, Luciana. (2003). Language ideologies, language socialization, and language revival in an Italian alpine community. ''Texas Linguistics Forum'' 45: 46-57.
*Politzer, Robert L. (1967). ''Beitrag zur Phonologie der Nonsberger Mundart''. Innsbruck: Institut für Romanische Philologie der Leopold-Franzens-Universität.
*Quaresima, Enrico. (1964). ''Vocabolario anaunico e solandro, raffrontato col trentino''. Venice: Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale.
*Sandri, Ivana. (2003). ''Tratti ladini nella parlata della Val di Non''. Trento: La Grafica.
References
Languages of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Rhaeto-Romance languages
Ladin language
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