Tra mantenimento e slittamento linguistico: il caso del friulano di Avellaneda

The article focuses on the community of Avellaneda in Argentina, which is mainly constituted by descendants of Friulian immigrants, who arrived between the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Through the results of a sociolinguistic survey held among the members of the local Fogolâr, on the one hand we will evaluate the survival of Friulian language in absolute terms and in relation to the sociolinguistic characteristics of the speakers and the community. On the other, the progressive retreat of this code in relation to the domains will be observed, trying to evaluate those in which the linguistic substitution has proceeded less quickly. Finally, by analysing a linguistic text provided by a Friulian speaker, some linguistic phenomena in his idiolect will be noticed, differentiating the conservative ones from those due to the prolonged contact with Spanish.