Intermediate Southern Italian
Let an agent identify the Intermediate Southern Italian group and its varieties, give codes, and describe status and resources without ranking them below standard Italian.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Identity Which language or group exactly.
Classification
Family and branch.
Genealogy
Family, branch and closest relatives.
- Where does it sit in its family? definition
- Which languages are closest to it? definition
Codes
Language identifiers.
Language codes
ISO 639 and Glottolog.
- Which codes identify it? provenance
- Are varieties coded separately? boundary
Varieties and area Where and how it was or is spoken.
Varieties
Dialects or member languages.
Variety
Named variety and features.
- Which variety is meant? definition
- How does it differ from its neighbours? definition
Geography
Area of use.
Speech area
Where it was or is spoken.
- Where was or is it spoken? provenance
- For which period? boundary
Records and structure How it is attested and built.
Writing and attestation
Scripts and sources.
Attestation
Scripts, texts and dates.
- Which scripts and texts attest it? provenance
- How old are the records? measurement
Features
Distinctive features.
Features
Phonology and grammar.
- Which features set it apart? definition
- Which grammars describe them? provenance
Status Vitality and recognition.
Speakers
Numbers or extinction.
Speaker data
Counts with source and year, or date of extinction.
- Is it living, and how many speakers, by which source? measurement
- Are children learning it? measurement
Recognition
Legal status and study.
Status
Official status and research.
- Is it recognised or protected anywhere? provenance
- Where is it studied or taught? definition
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Northern Calabrian, Campanian, Abruzzese, Molisan, Barese, Apulian, Cilentan, Castelmezzano, Archaic dialects of Calabria-Lucania, Neapolitan dialect, Southern Marchigiano
What it is Filled
The group of Southern Italo-Romance varieties spoken across most of southern mainland Italy: southern Lazio, southern Marche (south of the Aso), Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, central-northern Apulia, Basilicata and northern Calabria, with Neapolitan as the best-known variety; often called Neapolitan in a broad sense.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent identify the Intermediate Southern Italian group and its varieties, give codes, and describe status and resources without ranking them below standard Italian.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Italo-Romance varieties distinct from standard Italian, not dialects of it in the linguistic sense.
- Typical features are weakened unstressed vowels, often to schwa, and metaphony of stressed vowels, varying locally.
- Extreme Southern Italian (Sicilian, southern Calabrian, Salentino) is a separate group.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- invent words or translations presented as authentic
- attribute speaker numbers without a source
- rank languages or dialects as superior
Only with a human decision
- translations for official or published use
May
- explain the language, its varieties and resources
- help learners with general information
Moral aspects Filled
- respect for regional languages
- accurate representation
Who is affected
- speakers and communities
Owners Filled
Steward
the speaker communities
Master systems
- ISO 639-3 registry
- Glottolog
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q139916383 - registry parent class
related
- Italo-Romance language - southern group
- standard Italian - national language
- Extreme Southern Italian - neighbouring group
contains
- Neapolitan language - best-known variety
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.intermediate-southern-italian
- Wikidata: Q33845 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33845)
- ISO 639-3: nap the ISO entry named Neapolitan; its boundaries are not identical with the dialect group
- Glottolog: neap1235
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
A language group has no physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Written in Latin script with traditional spellings, especially Neapolitan
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify a variety and its region
- give language codes
- describe literature and song traditions
- point to dictionaries and studies
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Language shift to standard Italian
- Treating the varieties as one uniform language
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- ISO 639-3 language codes
- Not among the minority languages protected by Italian Law 482/1999
Context of use required Filled
- Everyday speech, song, theatre and literature of southern Italian communities.
- Neapolitan (Campanian)
- Southern Marchigiano
- Abruzzese
- Molisan
- Apulian and Barese
- Lucanian
- Northern Calabrian
- conservative Calabria-Lucania (Lausberg area) varieties
- Cilentan
- southern Lazio varieties
Sources Filled
- Q33845 - identity of the registry item, labels and sitelinks
- Neapolitan language - general description of the subject
- Meridionali, dialetti - southern dialects
- ISO 639-3: nap - language code
- Legge 15 dicembre 1999, n. 482 - Italian minority language law
Open questions
- Speaker figures for the whole group are rarely measured; which source should the card use?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q33845/spec.json