Padanian Language

Padanian Language: an overview
Three things to know about Padanian
The Padanian language (or Rhaeto-Cisalpine) is a Romance language, sharing its main features with French, Occitan, Catalan as well as with Francoprovenal. Padanian is spoken in the Po valley (in central-southern continental Europe), in the Alps, the Ligurian coast and the northern side of the Appenines, plus some exclaves in Tuscany, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and Lucania (see map on the left). Different varieties of Padanian are also spoken by migrant communities all over the world (Ethnologu...

The Padanian quiz
Ten questions about the Padanian language
Test your knowledge about the Padanian language and its dialects! Do you want to study before taking this quiz? Please take a look at the page Padanian language, a scientific approach or at this extended bibliography. Even if you are not a scholar studying this matter, you can still have fun! And, if you're here, you already have the right chance of already having a better knowledge of these facts and figures than some people claiming themselves to be experts but having made some extravagant ...

Padanian language: untenable statements
Something having been said which maybe should not have instead...
This page contains some complementary sociolinguistic information about the Padanian language and its dialects (Hull, 1982, Meneghin 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011). The Padanian language speaking area is split into eight states (which is nothing bad by itself, of course): Austria, Croatia, France, Italy, Monaco, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland. Most speakers are in the Italian state, in areas north of the La Spezia-Rimini line, thus not belonging to the Italian linguistic domain. In this pag...