Meanings
- uncountableA Franco-Provençal variety spoken in the communities of Faeto and Celle di San Vito in Foggia, Italy.
This is a study of pronoun usage among Faetar speakers in the Toronto area. In English pronouns are almost always mandatory, in Italian they are often omitted (around 80% according to Nagy et al., 2011), but in Faetar they are variably present. Also, Faetar has two pronoun types, strong and weak.
2015, Michael Iannozzi, “Pro-drop in Faetar in Canada: A Study of a Heritage Language in Contact”, in Western Papers in Linguistics, volume 1, number 2, →ISSN, page 11 more example
Faetar is held in high regard by its speakers: they recognize a certain amount of prestige in this marker of their distinctness from other southern Italians. […] All the natives of Faeto still speak Faetar on a daily basis, reserving Italian for communication with outsiders, and many emigrants continue to speak Faetar for several generations after leaving Faeto.
1996, Naomi Nagy, Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community, University of Pennsylvania, page 4
Origin
- Franco-Provençalfaetar
- EnglishFaetar
From Franco-Provençal faetar.
More words from Franco-Provençal
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French faetar
- faetarFranco-Provençal variety
Italian faetano
- faetanoFranco-Provençal variety
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Cite this entry
Faetar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Faetar
“Faetar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Faetar. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Faetar,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Faetar.
Source: Faetar on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.