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Luthic
Lûthica
Lutho-Ravennese Flag.png
Flag of the Luthic-speaking Ravenna
Pronunciation[ˈlu.ti.xɐ]
Created byLëtzelúcia
Date2023
SettingAlternative historyItaly
Native toRavenna;Ferrara andBologna
EthnicityLuths
Native speakers149,500 (2020)
Indo-European
Early forms
Proto-Luthic
  • Gothic Luthic
    • Mediaeval Luthic
      • Late Mediaeval Luthic
Standard form
Standard Ravennese Luthic (Lûthica)
Dialects
  • Upper Luthic (Altalûthica), Ferraresi Luthic (Lûthica Estense)
  • Standard Bolognese Luthic (Lûthica Bolognesa)
  • Paulistan Luthic (Lûthica Paülista)
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Italy (recognised by the Luthic Community of Ravenna)
Brazil (recognised inSão Paulo)
Regulated byCouncil for the Luthic Language
Language codes
CLCRqlu
BRCLluth
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The areas where Luthic (red and orange) is spoken.
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Luthic (/ˈluːθ.ɪk/LOOTH-ik;endonym:Lûthica[ˈlu.ti.xɐ]) is anItalic language that is spoken by the Luths, with strongEast Germanic influence. Unlike otherRomance languages, such asPortuguese,Spanish,Catalan,Occitan andFrench, Luthic has a large inherited vocabulary fromEast Germanic, instead of only proper names that survived in historical accounts, andloanwords. About 250,000 people speak Luthic worldwide.

Luthic is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both regions after theGothic raids towards theRoman Empire began, together with the laterWest Germanic merchants’ travels to and from theWestern Roman Empire. These connections, the interactions between thePapal States and the conquest by the Germanic dynasties of the Roman Empire slowly formed acreole as alingua franca for mutual communication.

As a standard form of the Gotho-Romance language, Luthic has similarities with otherItalo-Dalmatian languages,Western Romance languages andSardinian. The status of Luthic as the regional language of Ravenna and the existence there of a regulatory body have removed Luthic, at least in part, from the domain ofStandard Italian, its traditionalDachsprache. It is also related to theFlorentine dialect spoken by theItalians in the Italian city ofFlorence and its immediate surroundings.

Luthic is aninflectedfusional language, with fourcases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); threegenders (masculine, feminine, neuter); and twonumbers (singular, plural).


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