Faetar

English Etymology From en frp faetar. Pronunciation en /faɪˈdɑɹ/ CA Noun - A Franco-Provençal variety spoken in the communities of Faeto and Celle di San Vito in Foggia, Italy. en 1996 Naomi Nagy Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community University of Pennsylvania 4 Faetar is held in high regard by its speakers: they recognize a certain amount of prestige in this marker of their distinctness from other southern Italians. All the natives of Faeto still speak Faetar on a daily basis, reserving Italian for communication with outsiders, and many emigrants continue to speak Faetar for several generations after leaving Faeto. en 2015 Michael Iannozzi Pro-drop in Faetar in Canada: A Study of a Heritage Language in Contact Western Papers in Linguistics 2564-1786 1 2 1 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/wpl_clw/article/view/933 This is a study of pronoun usage among Faetar speakers in the Toronto area. In English pronouns are almost always mandatory, in Italian they are often omitted (around 80% according to Nagy et al., 2011), but in Faetar they are variably present. Also, Faetar has two pronoun types, strong and weak. Translations Franco-Provençal variety Franco-Provençal: frp faetar m French: fr faetar m Italian: it faetano m