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Thirteen Communities

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The Thirteen Communities ({{langx|cim|Dreizehn Komoin}}, {{langx|de|Dreizehn Gemeinden}}, {{langx|it|Tredici Comuni}}) were a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that once primarily spoke the Cimbrian language, a dialect of Upper German, as their native tongue; the dialect is endangered today. The municipalities are located on a high plateau northeast of Verona.

List

  1. {{lang|cim|Vellje}}
  2. {{lang|cim|Roveràit}}
  3. {{lang|cim|gen Wiese}}
  4. {{lang|cim|Brunghe}} and {{lang|cim|Ljetzan}} (a {{lang|it|frazione}} of {{lang|cim|Brunghe}})
  5. {{lang|cim|Nuagankirchen}}
  6. {{lang|cim|kam' Àbato}}
  7. {{lang|cim|kame Cire}}
  8. {{lang|cim|Salàin}}
  9. {{lang|cim|Asarin}} ({{lang|it|Azzarino}}), a part of {{lang|cim|Vellje}}
  10. {{lang|cim|Bòrtolom}} ({{lang|it|San Bortolo}}), a {{lang|it|frazione}} of {{lang|cim|Brunghe}}
  11. {{lang|cim|Porrental}} ({{lang|it|Val di Porro}}), {{lang|it|frazione}} of {{lang|cim|Nuagankirchen}}
  12. Tavernole, a {{lang|it|frazione}} of San Mauro di Saline
  13. {{lang|cim|Kampsilvan}} ({{lang|it|Camposilvano}}), a {{lang|it|frazione}} of Vellje

History

The thirteen communities formed together into a loose commonwealth around 1280. They were historically under the suzerainty of the Milanese House of Visconti and then under the Republic of Venice. Under both they enjoyed wide cultural and political autonomy in exchange for their loyalty. The autonomous status came to an end with the Napoleonic Wars and the demise of the {{lang|it|Serenìssima}} in 1797.

Due to the high pressure from the Italianization from fascists such as Ettore Tolomei and the government of Benito Mussolini did the Cimbrian language eventually almost completely disappear and become extinct. Only in {{lang|cim|Ljetzan}} has Cimbrian partly survived.

Ljetzan has the cultural institute {{lang|cim|"Tautsche Püachar Haus"}} and ethnological museum which is a repository of the Cimbrian culture and cooperates with other linguistic enclaves in Luserna and the Seven Communities. Vestiges of the once dominant language can be found in some place names.

Example

The Cimbrian that was spoken in the Thirteen Communities was a slightly different dialect from Cimbrian spoken elsewhere.

class="wikitable"

! Cimbrian

! German

! English

{{lang|cim|Vatar usar

ta Do pist ime Himmel,

gaholagat sait Dai name.

Kime Daine Raich.{{cite web |url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaterunser_zimbrisch.JPG |title=Das Vaterunser auf Zimbrisch (13 Gemeinden) |year=2006 |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |language=Cimbrian |accessdate=2011-05-13}}}}

|{{lang|de|Vater unser

der Du bist im Himmel,

geheiligt werde Dein Name.

Dein Reich komme.}}

|Our Father

who are in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come,

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.cimbri.org/ Gateway to the Land of the Cimbrians] {{in lang|de}}
  • [http://www.cimbri.it/ Cimbrians of the Thirteen Communities in Ljetzan] {{in lang|it}}
  • [http://www.cimbri.info/ Cultural Associations of the Cimbrians in Kulturverein der Zimbern im Cansiglio] {{in lang|de|it}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095200/http://www.sprachinselverein.at/ger/dreizehn_gemeinden.htm Sprachinselverein | Dreizehn Gemeinden] {{in lang|de}}

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