Sabino is a
Central Italian
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dialect spoken in
Central Italy
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Regions
Central It ...
, precisely in an area which includes the northern part of the
province of Aquila and the whole
province of Rieti
The Province of Rieti ( it, Provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 ''comuni'' ...
, with some linguistic islands in the
province of Rome
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. It preserves the
Late Latin
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vocalism, also known as ''archaic vocalism''.
It is divided into three main groups, each one representing a local form of Sabino.
* ''Aquilano'' (also known as Cicolano-Reatino-Aquilano): it is the most important dialect of Sabino and it is considered the standard form. The area where it is spoken covers the largest part of Sabino's zone, in the province of Rieti and in the northern province of Aquila.
* ''Carseolano'' or ''Sublacense'', a form of Sabino spoken in province of Rome (
Subiaco) and in
Carsoli Carsoli (Marsicano: ') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo (central Italy). The ancient Roman city lies southwest of the modern town.
History
The ancient city, known as ''Carsioli'' (or ''Carseoli''), was founded in the ...
.
* ''Tagliacozzano'', a transitional form of Sabino with
Southern Italian which is spoken in
Tagliacozzo
Tagliacozzo (Marsicano: ') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.
History
Tagliacozzo lies in an area inhabited in early historic times by the Aequi and the Marsi, although the first mentions of the town ...
,
Scurcola Marsicana and in upper
Liri
The Liri (Latin Liris or Lyris, previously, Clanis; Greek: ) is one of the principal rivers of central Italy, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea a little below Minturno under the name Garigliano.
Source and route
The Liri's source is in the Mon ...
Valley.
Common features
*Many authors consider Sabino as an independent group of Italian language distinguished from
Central Italian
Central Italian (Italian: ''dialetti mediani'') refers to Italo-Romance varieties spoken in the so-called ''Area Mediana'', which covers a swathe of the central Italian peninsula. ''Area Mediana'' is also used in a narrower sense to describe the ...
. It is the only dialect which keeps the two affixes ''-o'' and ''-u'' of
Late Latin
Late Latin ( la, Latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.Roberts (1996), p. 537. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the , and continuing into the 7th century in t ...
, so there are words like 'horse', from
Latin
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, and 'I write', from Latin .
*In a large zone between Rieti and
Aniene
The Aniene (; la, Aniō), formerly known as the Teverone, is a river in Lazio, Italy. It originates in the Apennines at Trevi nel Lazio and flows westward past Subiaco, Vicovaro, and Tivoli to join the Tiber in northern Rome. It formed the pr ...
Valley local dialects keeps the
Late Latin
Late Latin ( la, Latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.Roberts (1996), p. 537. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the , and continuing into the 7th century in t ...
vocalic system: words in which stressed vowels are ''e'' or ''o'' the final affix is ''-o'', in words in which stressed vowel are ''i'' or ''u'' the final affix is -u ( 'rich', 'new', 'man', 'eight').
*Apocope of infinitive affixes: 'to eat', 'to kill', , 'to sleep'.
*Splitting of -RR- in
Rieti
Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina re ...
district ( < TERRA, 'soil').
See also
*
Central Italian
Central Italian (Italian: ''dialetti mediani'') refers to Italo-Romance varieties spoken in the so-called ''Area Mediana'', which covers a swathe of the central Italian peninsula. ''Area Mediana'' is also used in a narrower sense to describe the ...
*
Southern Italian
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Languages of Italy
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Sabine language
The Sabines (; lat, Sabini; it, Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.
The Sabines divi ...
External links
Songs in Reatino
Dialects of Italian
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