Friulian Language, Literature and Culture

The main purpose of this course is to provide the linguistic and cultural knowledge of the Friulian language, which should enable active oral communication, reading and understanding of literary and other texts as well as professional knowledge about the culture of the adjacent nation.
The course should enable a student to, independently analyze the potential elements of Friulian origin within the Slovene language.

There are no enrolment or degree requirements for the course.

The course provides a balance between professional and pragmatic knowledge. The introductory part aims to give the student a general knowledge of the history of the Friulian language, and, above all through language exercises also a certain competence in the area of Friulian grammar. Teaching the basics of the language is based on the use and analysis of texts as the main starting point of the learning process, which should enable the student to actively communicate in the Friulian language.
• Linguistic image of Friuli: the presence of languages of Romance, Slavic and German origin.
• The standard language and dialects: the relationship between linguistic genres
• Standard Friulian
• Friulian literature (up to three fundamental Friulian literary works each year).
• Review of other literary genres (journalism), folk literature and oral tradition.
• Friulian culture.

Knowledge and understanding:
● The student learns the basics of the Friulian language and understands its basic patterns;
● they learn about chapters of Friulian literature and culture;
● they learn about the history of the Friuli.

Acquired skills:
● The student is able to communicate in basic oral and written form in the Friulian language that can be used in contact with a Friulian speaker;
● They understand the history of the area and the sociolinguistic position of the Friulian people, which they will be able to use when dissecting the concrete social and cultural-historical phenomena of the Friulian language and its laws, learn about the chapters on Friulian literature and culture.

Basic:

• G. Heinemann, Sabine (ur.); Melchior, Luca (ur.) 2015: Manuale di linguistica friulana. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Alessandra Kersevan (ur.) 2001: Amalârs, antologjie de leterature furlane. Udin: KappaVu.
• Giorgio Cadorini: Pandi: Spletni učbenik za učenje furlanščine. E-version

Additional:

• Maniacco, Tito 2018: I senzastoria: il Friuli dalle origini a noi. Pordenone: Biblioteca dell'Immagine, 2018.
• Zuljan Kumar, Danila. Identity changes in the Slovenian and Friulian linguistic communities in the Province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. European Countryside. 2018, vol. 10, no. 1, str. 141-157. E- version

Successful completion of the 2 colloquia during the year and the seminar paper are prerequisites for admission to the examination.

Colloquia (30 %)
Seminar paper (30 %)
Oral examination (40 %)

Danila Zuljan Kumar is associate professor of linguistics at the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica and a research associate at ZRC SAZU's Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language. Her research topics include Slovene dialectology, sociolinguistics and geolinguistics. She is the co-author of Slovene Linguistic Atlases 1, 2, and 3, author of two and co-editor of several scientific monographs.

Selected publications:

• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila. Change in the discursive practices of bilingual speakers after moving to a monolingual environment. Razprave in gradivo : revija za narodnostna vprašanja. [Tiskana izd.]. 2022, no. 88, str. 67-85.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila. V: SCETTI, Fabio (ur.), et al. Vitalité sociolinguistique des langues des massifs montagneux : Alpes et Caucase. 1re éd. Roma: Aracne, 2022. Str. 263-283, zvd., fotogr. Lingue dʼEuropa e del Mediterraneo, 17, Sezione 4, Sociolinguistica.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila. Identity and discursive practices of Friulians and Slovenes in the Province of Udine, Italy, in recent decades. Dialectologia : revista electrònica. 2020, nr. 24, str. 273-296.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila, LEGAN RAVNIKAR, Andreja (urednik). Skladnja nadiškega in briškega narečja. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2022. 201 str.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila. Identity changes in the Slovenian and Friulian linguistic communities in the Province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. European Countryside. 2018, vol. 10, no. 1, str. 141-157.
• ŠKOFIC, Jožica, GOSTENČNIK, Januška, HAZLER, Vito, JAKOP, Tjaša, KENDA-JEŽ, Karmen, KUMIN HORVAT, Mojca, NARTNIK, Vlado, PAHOR, Nina, SMOLE, Vera, ŠEKLI, Matej, ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila, ŠKOFIC, Jožica (urednik), KENDA-JEŽ, Karmen (urednik), KUMIN HORVAT, Mojca (urednik), ŠEKLI, Matej (urednik), PAHOR, Nina (urednik). Slovenski lingvistični atlas. 3, Kmetovanje. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2023. 2 zv. Zbirka Jezikovni atlasi.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila (urednik), KOLENC, Petra (urednik). Saggi scelti sulla storia, sulla lingua e sulla società slovena al confine italo-sloveno. 1a ed. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC; Udine: Kappa Vu, 2022. 166 str.
• ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila. I dialetti sloveni lungo il confine linguistico slavo-romanzo = I dialets slovens fevelâts dilunc dal confin linguistic sloven-romanç. V: ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila (ur.), KOLENC, Petra (ur.). Saggi scelti sulla storia, sulla lingua e sulla società slovena al confine italo-sloveno. 1a ed. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC; Udine: Kappa Vu, 2022. Str. 29-47.

Dr. Giorgio Cadorini was born in Palmanova in 1965 and has been living in the Czech Republic since 1991. He studied general and Romance linguistics in Trieste and learned the Slovene language there. He received his doctorate in Prague. He is a member of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He taught Friulian, Italian, Romanistics and Mediterranean cultures at the Czech universities in Prague, Opava and Brno for thirty years. He deals with the etymology of Romance languages and is currently working on the international project Dictionnaire étymologique roman (DÉRom) and the lexicographic projects Dizionari de Lenghe furlane and Vocabular dl ladin leterar (Dizionari de Lenghe furlane, Vocabular dl ladin leterar). In 2010, 2011 and 2018, he lectured on the Friuli language, literature and culture course at the University of Nova Gorica.

Selected publications:

● CADORINI, Giorgio 2020: Il ladino e la sua storia. In VIDESOTT, Paul; VIDESOTT, Ruth; CASALICCHIO, Jan (ed.). Manuale di linguistica ladina. Berlin / Boston : De Gruyter, pp. 109–143.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 2018: Il furlan : Storie, societât e la part dai Slovens. V: ŽELE, Andreja; ŠEKLI, Matej (ur.). Slovenistika in slavistika v zamejstvu – Videm. Ljubljana : Slavistično društvo Slovenije,. 13–21.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 2015: Friulano, veneto e toscano nella storia del Friuli. In HEINEMANN, Sabine; MELCHIOR, Luca (eds.). Manuale di linguistica friulana. Berlin / Boston : De Gruyter, pp. 316–337.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 2011: Predbeneški govor Kopra in Pirana. V FILIPI, G. (ur.). Narečna prepletanja. Koper, 61–71.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 2010 –: pandi: (online): http://www1.cuni.cz/~cadorini/furlan/pandi/. Učbenik furlanščine za Slovence.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 2004: . Furlanština a její typ. Časopis pro moderní filologii. 2004, 86, 65-78.
● CADORINI, Giorgio 1996: Quelques hypothèses sur des aspects de la morphologie du frioulan prélitteraire. Revue de Linguistique Romane. Juillet-Décembre 1996, Tome 60, N.os 239-240, 463-483.