| Ticinese | |
|---|---|
| Ticinees | |
| Native to | Switzerland |
| Region | Switzerland: Ticino (Sopraceneri) |
Native speakers | 108,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | tici1238 |
| IETF | lmo-u-sd-chti |
TheTicinese dialect is the set of dialects, belonging to the Alpine andWestern branch of theLombard language,[3] spoken in the northern part of theCanton of Ticino[4] (Sopraceneri); the dialects of the region can generally vary from valley to valley, often even between single localities,[4] while retaining the mutual intelligibility that is typical of the Lombard linguistic continuum.[5]
Ticinese koiné refers instead to akoiné form used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from thekoiné itself, as, e.g.,Leventinese, etc.) when communicating with speakers of otherWestern Lombard dialects ofTicino, theGrisons (collectively known asSwiss Italian) or ItalianLombardy.[6]
Ticinese is generally more lively than the Western Lombard varieties spoken in Italy, with a significant number of young speakers. Some radio and television programmes in Ticinese, mostly comedies are broadcast by the Italian language broadcasting companyRTSI.
A dictionary and some studies on the Ticinese variants are published by CDE –Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia, a cantonal research institution.
Some possible expressions and idioms:
| English | Ticinese | Italiano |
|---|---|---|
| Delicious potatoes | Patati delizioos | Patate deliziose |
| To be naive | Beev l'acqua dal cudee | Credere a tutto ed a tutti |
| One makes nothing out of nothing | Chi gh'à al goss al gh'à quaicoss, se i gh'à nagott al gh'à al goss da carezz | Con niente si fa nulla |
A nord i dialetti definiti lombardo-alpini a partire da Merlo (1960-1961), parlati nell'Ossola superiore, nelle valli ticinesi a nord di Locarno e Bellinzona, nei Grigioni italiani e nell'alta Valtellina, caratterizzati da tratti arcaici e da una certa affinità con il romancio svizzero.
Il dialetto principale rappresentante il gruppo occidentale si è il Milanese, e ad esso più o meno affini sono: il Lodigiano, il Comasco, il Valtellinese, il Bormiese, il Ticinese e il Verbanese.[...] Il Comasco esténdesi in quasi tutta la provincia di Como, tranne l'estrema punta settentrionale al di là di Menagio e di Bellano a destra ed a sinistra del Lario; e in quella vece comprende la parte meridionale del Cantone Ticinese, sino al monte Cènere. [...] Il Ticinese è parlato nella parte settentrionale del Cantone Svizzero d'egual nome, al norte del Monte Cènere, in parecchie varietà, tra le quali distinguonsi sopra tutto le favelle delle valli Maggia, Verzasca, Leventina, Blenio ed Onsernone.
Lombard (Lumbard, ISO 639-9 lmo) is a cluster of essentially homogeneous varieties (Tamburelli 2014: 9) belonging to the Gallo-Italic group. It is spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy, in the Novara province of Piedmont, and in Switzerland. Mutual intelligibility between speakers of Lombard and monolingual Italian speakers has been reported as very low (Tamburelli 2014). Although some Lombard varieties, Milanese in particular, enjoy a rather long and prestigious literary tradition, Lombard is now mostly used in informal domains. According to Ethnologue, Piedmontese and Lombard are spoken by between 1,600,000 and 2,000,000 speakers and around 3,500,000 speakers, respectively. These are very high figures for languages that have never been recognised officially nor systematically taught in school
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