Folignate-Nocera Umbra is a tourist region ofUmbria.
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Spoken languages
The Folignate dialect is one of the Umbrian dialects. It is spoken in the city of Foligno and in the neighboring centers of Spello, Valtopina and Montefalco, as well as with some variants of Nocera Umbra, Trevi and Bevagna.
It belongs to the group of Umbrian dialects of the southern group, such as Spoleto, Terni, Narnese. Folignate is not only the northernmost among the Umbrian dialects of the southern group, but the northernmost in the region, among the dialects located south of the famous border line of the isoglosses which, according to the German study Gerhard Rohlfs, would divide the North from the Southern Italy. In fact, Folignate has some influences from the Perugian dialect, such as the use of the simple preposition "nd 'to compose articulated prepositions instead of the Italian" in ":"' ndò lu fiume "," 'ndò lu muru "for "in the river" "in the wall", or the use of the third person singular feminine pronoun "lia", also typical of Ancona.
Its most striking general characteristics are:
- The originally distinct Latin u and final o's tend to unify in "u", except in all verbal forms other than the participle and in some terms that keep the gender neutral ("lu somaru" ma "lo vino"). The Latin "a", on the other hand, always remains intact, never expiring, unlike what happens in the Perugian, with an indistinct vowel.
- Metaphonesis: words ending in -u, -o and -i -e, if they are accented on o / and undergo a darkening of the latter, which pass to ó / é if they are acute or au / i if they are severe ( cóttu
it. pòrco, nùi - The consonants undergo sonorisation and palatization phenomena very similar to those found in the Marche dialects of the Macerata-Fermana-Camerte area, even if overall less accentuated.
Territories and tourist destinations
Folignate-Nocera Umbra: full screen map.Urban centers
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What see
Itineraries
- Via Carolingia - European itinerary that crosses the places traveled by the court of Charlemagne between the 8th and 9th centuries to travel from Aachen to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned the Carolingian sovereign emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas night in the 19th century.
