Also Known As:
Italian (Turinese), Piedmontese
Dialects & Varieties
- Low Piemontese
- High Piemontese
Europe and North Asia
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~2,000,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 1
Most members of the community or ethnic group speak the language. Speaker numbers may be decreasing, but very slowly.
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Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Italy
Location Description
Spoken in the Piedmont Region except the Novara Province, the western Alpine valleys and southern border areas, as well as in the border area of Savona Province in Liguria.
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
Tavola per la trascrizione fonetica dei dialetti del piemontese parlati nel Verbano Cusio Ossola (Pi
It includes 12,000 terms and 22,000 translations.
A complete website including a dictionary, an anthology of poems often with associated audio files,