Nones dialect

Nones (autonym: nònes, German: Nonsberger Mundart) is a dialect named after and spoken in the Non Valley in Trentino, northern Italy. It is estimated that around 30,000 persons speak in Non Valley, Rabbi Valley and the low Sole Valley.

Nones
Native toItaly
RegionNon Valley, Trentino, northern Italy
Native speakers
30,000
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolognone1236

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 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

  1. David Dalby, 1999/2000, The Linguasphere register of the world’s languages and speech communities. Observatoire Linguistique, Linguasphere Press. Volume 2. Oxford.


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