{"id":4621,"date":"2024-01-08T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpilink.it\/?page_id=4621"},"modified":"2024-06-11T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T09:45:16","slug":"sloveno-della-val-canale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alpilink.it\/en\/sloveno-della-val-canale\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Canale Slovenian"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\"\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>

Val Canale Slovenian<\/span><\/span><\/h2>

Slovenian is one of the minority languages officially recognized by Italy through law 482\/1999. The northernmost region in Italy where Slovenian is spoken is the Val Canale (Slovenian: <\/span>Kanalska dolina<\/span><\/i>), which is quadrilingual: Slovenian is part of speaker\u2019s individual repertoires alongside German, Italian and Friulian. The indigenous Slovenian population today is a small minority, similar to the Germans in the Val Canale<\/a>. Only about 300 people still use Slovenian dialects today (Hasenauer et al. 2020, p. 37), mainly in the villages of Ugovizza (Ukve) in the municipality of Malborghetto-Valbruna (Naborjet-Ov\u010dja vas) and Camporosso (\u017dabnice) in the municipality of Tarvisio (Trbi\u017e). Therefore, only these two municipalities are officially considered Slovenian-speaking (Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica<\/i><\/a>, September 12, 2007). Dialect speakers are over 70 years old. In the other localities the dialect is largely abandoned, but according to Hasenauer et al. (2020, p. 31) a “symbolic ethnicity” remains, through which local traditions and customs are preserved to some extent.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

The local varieties of the Val Canale, from the point of view of Slovenian dialectology, belong to the Carinthian dialects (koro\u0161ko nare\u010dje<\/i>, cf. SLA, pp. 11-14), more specifically to the Slovenian Gail Valley dialects (ziljsko nare\u010dje<\/em>) which are also present in the adjacent Austrian and Slovenian territories. For a compact description of the linguistic features of the Slovenian Gail Valley dialects see \u0160ekli (2024, p. 223-225). During the era of communism in Yugoslavia, the residents of the Val Canale did not identify with Slovenia, but developed a “diffused ethnicity” (Hasenauer et al. 2020, p. 37), which is perhaps best expressed in their self-designation <\/span>po na\u0161em<\/span><\/i>, which roughly means ‘in our own way’ and closely resembles self-designations in other linguistic islands, such as <\/span>as be biar<\/span><\/i> ‘like us\u201d’ of the Cimbrians<\/a>. However, differently from the situation in the Resia Valley<\/a>, standard Slovenian always had some functional domains, for example in the media and, since recently, also in the public school (see \u0160ekli 2024, p. 227).
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/p>\n