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Piedmontese

Piedmontese

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A language spoken in Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy
  • noun
: piamontés
  • During the family reunion, my grandmother shared stories in Piedmontese, recalling her childhood in northern Italy.

Examples

  • After some two hours, because of the umlauts I was hearing, I thought that they might be speaking Piedmontese, and I listened, trying to make out the words.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • People spoke essentially Piedmontese, which is the language spoken in northern Italy, in the state of the strongest state of Italy, Piedmont, Sardinia.

  • In her linguistics class, she presented a fascinating overview of Piedmontese, highlighting its unique features among Romance languages.

  • Many locals in the small village still communicate in Piedmontese, preserving their rich cultural heritage.

Surface Forms

Piedmontese singular
Piedmonteses plural

Morphology

Piedmontese = Piedmont (transparent) = Piedmont + ese

Formed by adding the productive demonym/language suffix '-ese' to the place name 'Piedmont', a standard and recognizable pattern.

Etymology

Piedmontese names the local language of Piemonte, a word that means 'foot of the mountain' and combines pie 'foot' and monte 'mountain'. So Piedmontese is the dialect spoken by people from that region of northwest Italy.