Friulian

American  

[free-oo-lee-uhn] / friˈu li ən /

noun

1. a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken by about half a million people of the plains of extreme NE Italy.

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Friulian British  

/ frɪˈuːlɪən /

noun

1. the Rhaetian dialect spoken in parts of Friuli See also Ladin Romansch

2. an inhabitant of Friuli or a speaker of Friulian

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adjective

1. of or relating to Friuli, its inhabitants, or their language

Etymology

Origin of Friulian

1875–80; Friuli region of Italy + -an

Example Sentences

A few puffy clouds hung above Italy’s Friulian Mountains, to the south.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

That international feeling was enhanced when she sang in the Friulian dialect to honor an Italian Vancouverite who helped bring her and her Italian pianist, Glauco Venier, to town.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2014

Pasolini's earliest poems were written in Friulian dialect: his ambition was for Friulano-speaking peasant communities to become "historically aware"; he, Pasolini, would be the medium of their awareness.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013

He promised to ask one of his customers who lives there to make the Friulian translation.

From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Ilona, Martinovitsné Kutas

This period of the painter's experience was brought to a close by the better one of a summer residence at Pieve di Cadore, a village among the Friulian Alps.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various