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Emilian is a language spoken almost exclusively in the historical region of Emilia, the western portion of today's Emilia-Romagna region. UNESCO, publisher of the Red Book of Endangered Languages, estimates that it has around 2 million speakers and consider that Emiliano-Romagnolo, Emilian's parent language group, is definitely endangered. SIL International puts the figure at around 3 million. Although commonly referred to as an Italian dialect (even by its speakers), it does not descend from the Italian language. It is part of the Gallo-Italic group of languages, which are Western New Latin, conserving innovative phonetic and syntactic features as in French, Occitan and Catalan, while Italian is part of Eastern New Latin. There is no standardised version of Emilian. The standard word order is subject–verb–object. There are two genders, two grammatical cases, and a distinction between plural and singular. Emilian has a strong T–V distinction to distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult. It employs a considerable number of diacritics.
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