faetar
/faɪˈdɑɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Franco-Provençal variety spoken in the communities of Faeto and Celle di San Vito in Foggia, Italy.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Faetar is held in high regard by its speakers: they recognize a certain amount of prestige in this marker of their distinctness from other southern Italians. […] All the natives of Faeto still speak Faetar on a daily basis, reserving Italian for communication with outsiders, and many emigrants continue to speak Faetar for several generations after leaving Faeto."
- "This is a study of pronoun usage among Faetar speakers in the Toronto area. In English pronouns are almost always mandatory, in Italian they are often omitted (around 80% according to Nagy et al., 2011), but in Faetar they are variably present. Also, Faetar has two pronoun types, strong and weak."
Etymology
From Franco-Provençal faetar.
Word Breakdown
- Root: faetar