Did you know that Talian is spoken in Brazil? Talian is the name given to the language spoken
by the descendants of the Venetian emigrants in Brazil and which is now part of the
intangible cultural heritage of Brazil. Talian is a dialect of the Venetian language spoken by about
500,000 people mainly in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande Do Sul and Santa Catarina. In this
video we will discover the story behind this language, enjoy! hello
hello Jacieno welcome to this new video! Thanks for the invitation Giulia and sorry my
Italian is not very nice but I will try to speak either Italian or the Talian that is spoken here in
Brazil. Yes, absolutely do not worry, your Italian is excellent, so tell us a little:
where do you live? I was born in a small town, a small town called Tres Palmeiras
in the north of the rio grande do sul which is located in the south of Brazil but four years ago I went to
stay in Corbelia which is in the region east of Parana also in the south of Brazil. So you
live there at the moment? Yes I live here, I work here but my work does not depend on a place,
on a place because I do advertising, commercial videos and YouTube and then
I can stay here working I can go to the center of Brazil or even further south of Brazil that
I can work the same way. How nice then you can travel and move; we have
n't said yet that you have two YouYube channels. Yes, in Portuguese the channel is called the name of
my city Corbelia videos, Corbelia means as if it were a bouquet of flowers and also a
smaller channel which is called Brasil Talian here we speak the Talian which is the Italian language of migration
in Brazil . Exactly and this is precisely why you are here with us today:
the Talian dialect. it is a pleasure to talk about Talian, a language that I learned from parents,
I have already learned as a child, as a child, from 2009 until now and I think as long as I am
alive I will speak Talian and I speak it every day or with people or through whatsapp groups , social
network , YouYube. I would like to start by asking you the question why is Talian spoken in Brazil?
Our ancestors here in Brazil, Italians immigrants, have come in the year 1888/1890,
is the vast majority of migrants from Veneto in northern Italy, there are very few people who came
from other areas of central Italy, southern Italy ... then the great majority came from Veneto,
Trentino all those regions. And why is it called Talian and not Venetian dialect?
Because when our ancestors came to Brazil it was still the time of the resurgence
of Italian unification, Italian was still not spoken, there were still many dialects
and then when our elders had little school (education), little study, they thought I was
speaking Italian because it comes from Italy then that's why there is so much confusion
especially in Veneto in Italy they think that Talian is spoken here to say Italian but no,
Talian is a fusion of many dialects of northern Italy because starting from Genoa to the port
of Genoa when he arrived by ship at sea there were those who spoke Veneto, those who spoke Trentino,
those who spoke Treviso, Cremonese and then they needed to understand each other and I think that the
Talian was born on a ship, the Talian is born of this mixture of these languages ​​and is almost
150 years old and still spoken; many people understand but do not speak, there are those
who speak, understand but cannot write, now there are also Talian schools to
teach those people who speak, they understand but cannot write and now there is also
Talian grammar where you are taught to write in a unified way. Perfect then the
Talian dialect is preserved through these schools in such a way as to pass it on to the next
generations? Yes going back a little in time around 1940 / 1942-3 here in Brazil there was
the president called and Getúlio Vargas at that time, time of World War II, this
government Getúlio Vargas made the prohibition of speaking Talian, it is not could speak Talian and the
language was almost totally lost, if it hadn't been for the prohibition of Getúlio Vargas,
today Talian would be spoken more but with the prohibition with the fear of going in chains,
in prison then our ancestors stopped to speak in Talian and for 20 years there has been such
a great ransom to return to speak the Talian, to spread and disseminate the importance of
our Talian for Brazil and also for the world; there are many associations that are concerned
with teaching and carrying on (the Talian), as they say here now in 2018 the Talian received
a very important title here in Brazil because it is now "Brazilian linguistic reference", it
is considered the first language of immigration to receive this title, a rio grande do sul
for example which is a state in southern Brazil, the second official language of the rio grande do
sul is Talian, then in Italy in Veneto it is a dialect, here for us it is almost a language and
now as I said before we have a school called cucagna scuola de Talian. Cucagna
means a treasure, a wealth because I don't know Giulia if you know it but we have many
ancient books here in Brazil written by the first migrants where they said that our ancestors
when they came from Italy had promised to come here to Brazil and find lands , finding the
"cucagna" in Talian the cucagna means the treasure of the Italian, poor our ancestors with that
hope of coming here, being gentlemen, being rich instead found many lands but
those that had advanced from the German colonization that took place ten / twenty / thirty years earlier,
then the best lands, the plains, the plains, the best places had been colonized by the
Germans and after our Italian colonization the mountains, the woods had advanced, what
needed to do something else time, start life again, restart society and
have made Serra Gaúcha a place in Brazil where Italian migration is stronger than it is
in the rio grande do sul, there is a piece of Italy in the last century because life, the way
of living, of speaking and then the cucagna they thought they would find was not there, they
only found it many years later, perhaps now and for what cucagna school de Talian is the darling,
the cucagna we have found now that is our language, our history and so
we take it with love, with pride, with honor for later teaching and bringing to our children,
our grandchildren. I absolutely agree: it is a great wealth to be protected
and safeguarded; one last question how often do you happen to use the Talian dialect
in Brazil in everyday life? As you said, every day:
me every day because as I said for the radio program, for videos,
for Brazil-Italy connections like this and also for meetings here in Talian it says "filò"
I don't know how to explain it 'is the filò; families meet at night to sing Italian music,
to speak in Talian, to eat what one has learned from parents, grandmother,
grandfather and then the Talian is used a lot for me and there is not a single day in which I have n't
spoken Talian since 2009 at least until nowadays. Congratulations, this is certainly
the best way to safeguard the Talian and to pass it on to the next generations. So I
started that site, that Brasil Talian channel rightly to record this moment,
still there are people who speak Talian, still there is the grandfather who knows how to teach
a thing to his grandson, the grandmother who makes the braid, today we have these things tomorrow we do not know.
Sure, you said some beautiful things. Can I make an invitation in Talian? Then
the invitation in Talian is for those who want to know more about what our language is,
to know the Brasil Talian Giulia channel, with your permission. Absolutely, so I
will now leave the link to your channel in description for all those interested in
learning Talian or discovering some more curiosities and I thank you very much
for participating in this video it was really a great pleasure. The pleasure was
mine, it was a great pleasure to speak in piazzasquare. Thanks a lot and hello everyone! Bye!