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

On all sides, except towards the south-west where it unites with the Friulian lowland, it is surrounded by mountains, and about four-sixths of its area is occupied by mountains and hills.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Among Italian folk-poets the Friulian is foremost as a lover of the greater heights; he turns to them habitually in his moments of poetic inspiration, and, as he says, their echoes repeat his sighs.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn