Sappadino

See also: sappadino

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sappadino.

Proper noun

Sappadino

1. The Germanic lect, a form of Tyrolean Bavarian, which is spoken in Sappada in Italy.
   • 1986, Linguistic minorities in countries belonging to the European community, page 85:

     The Austrian scholar, M. Hurnung, has published a dictionary of Sappadino; the socio-linguistic situation in Sauria/Zahre has been analysed by N. Denison[.]

   • 2010, Thomas Hanneforth, Gisbert Fanselow, Language and Logos: Studies in theoretical and computational linguistics:

     Similar problems arise also with other languages, such as Old Italian, Old High German, Old English, Old French, which have traditionally been characterized as V2 languages, [and] Rhaetoromance, Mocheno, Sappadino, Cimbrian.

   • 2011, Michael T. Putnam, Studies on German-language Islands, page 305:

     The same is true of other German dialects spoken in the Italian Alps like Sappadino (Plodarisch) and Mocheno, which also display regular subject inversion, but allow for V3 orders: (the Sappadino data in (5) are reported from Poletto[)...]

Synonyms

• Plodarisch

Translations

Plodarisch — see Plodarisch

See also

• Mocheno, Mòcheno
• Cimbrian