Cremish dialect explained

Cremish
States:
  • Italy
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Italic
Fam3:Latino-Faliscan
Fam4:Latin
Fam5:Romance
Fam6:Italo-Western
Fam7:Western Romance
Fam8:Gallo-Iberian
Fam9:Gallo-Romance
Fam10:Gallo-Italic
Fam11:Lombard–Piedmontese?[1]
Script:Latin
Ancestor:Old Latin
Ancestor2:Vulgar Latin
Ancestor3:Proto-Romance
Ancestor4:Old Gallo-Romance
Ancestor5:Old Lombard
Also Known As:Cremasque
Nativename:cremàsch
Fam12:Lombard
Fam13:Eastern Lombard
Region:Cremasque Territory
Ethnicity:Cremasque
Map:Cremishmap.png
Mapcaption:Cities in which Cremish is spoken

Cremish or Cremasque, (Cremish Lombard:) is an Eastern Lombard dialect spoken in the Cremasque Territory of the Province of Cremona, where Cremonese is spoken in the rest of the land except for Soresina and the aforementioned land.[2] The dialect is slowly dying, as younger people don't use it as much anymore.[3]

Classification

Cremish is an Eastern Lombard dialect belonging to the Gallo-Italic branch of the Romance languages. It is more closely related to the Langues d'oïl, Occitan, Catalan, the Rhaeto-Romance languages, and the Iberian Romance languages, than Italian. It is similar to the dialects of Bergamo (Bergamasque) and Brescia (Brescian).[4]

Distribution

The dialect is mostly spoken in the Cremasque Territory, which is the area adjacent to Crema and surroundings. It extends from the area of Rivolta d'Adda to Gombito and Castelleone.

Orthography

The dialect is traditionally written in the Classical Cremish Orthography, which is shown in Bonifacio Samarani's book Vocabulario cremasco-italiano.

Rules

The following are rules in the Classical Cremish Orthography.

Literature

The Cremish dialect began thriving in literature in the 18th century.[5] A notable poet that wrote in the dialect was Federico Pesadori,[6] who wrote works such as A Crèma, Ai casòt d'ingürie, and L'ucarina.

Bibliography

References

  1. Glottolog 4.8 - Piemontese-Lombard . 2023-07-10 . 2023-10-29 . . Hammarström . Harald . https://web.archive.org/web/20231029130658/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/piem1239 . 2023-10-29 . live . . Harald Hammarström . Forkel . Robert . . 10.5281/zenodo.7398962 . Haspelmath . Martin . Martin Haspelmath . Bank . Sebastian . free.
  2. Book: Sanga . Glauco . Dialettologia lombarda : lingue e culture popolari . 1984 . Aurora . Pavia . 8 . 6 June 2022.
  3. Web site: Sport . 2018-01-20 . Rinascimenti: aperitivo an dialèt cremàsch . 2024-05-10 . Il Nuovo Torrazzo . it.
  4. Book: 1859 . presso Corona e Caimi . 723 . it.
  5. Book: Piastrella, Carlo . Crema Nel Settecento . 15 . it.
  6. Book: 1931 . it.

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