Emilian dialects

Infobox language | name = Emilian | altname = | nativename = emigliân, emigliàn, | pronunciation = emiˈʎaːŋ | states = Italy | region = Primarily Emiliaborder variants spoken in near Lombardy and Venice provinces | ethnicity = 3.3 million (2008) | speakers = Unknown, 1.3 million (2006 estimate) | date = 2006 | ref = |familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = Italic | fam3 = Latino-Faliscan | fam4 = Romance | fam5 = Italo-Western | fam6 = Western Romance | fam7 = Gallo-Romance | fam8 = Gallo-Italic | fam9 = Emilian–Romagnol | dialects = see Dialectal variety section | script = Latin | minority = | agency = | iso3 = egl | glotto = emil1241 | glottorefname = Emiliano | lingua = 51-AAA-oka ... -okh | notice = IPA | map = Pruveins_itajani_in_Emeja.png | mapcaption = Emilian speaking provinces of Emilia Romagna region and surrounding regions Emilian (Reggian, Parmesan and Modenese: emigliân, Bolognese emiliàn; emiliano) is a Gallo-Italic unstandardised language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, which is now in the northwestern part of Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy. Emilian has a default word order of subject–verb–object and both grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) and grammatical number (singular and plural). There is a strong T–V distinction, which distinguishes varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity or insult. The alphabet, largely adapted from the Italian (Tuscan) one, uses a considerable number of diacritics. Gallo-Italic languages Emilian is a Gallo-Italic unstandardized language, part of the Emilian-Romagnol dialect continuum with the bordering Romagnol varieties. Besides Romagnol, the Gallo-Italic family includes Piedmontese, Ligurian and Lombard, all of which maintain a level of mutual intelligibility with Emilian. The historical and geographical fragmentation of Emilian communities, divided in many local administrations (as signorie then duchies, with reciprocal exchanges of land), has caused a high dialectal fragmentation, to the point the existence of an Emilian koiné has been questioned.