Nones
- Global speakers: 31,000
- Glottocode: none1236
- ISO 639-3: lld
Nones is spoken in Val di Non, a valley north of Trento in the Dolomite mountains in the far north of Italy. Many Nonesi who came to New York in the early 20th century considered themselves "Tyroleans" or "Austrians" more than Italians and remained to some degree separately from other Italian communities. Many men worked in construction, including on the Verrazzano Bridge, with some women working in the knitting mills. As described by speaker Giovanna Flaim, many Nonesi families lived initially in what is today Chelsea before forming communities of perhaps a few dozen families each in South Brooklyn, Williamsburg (near North 6th Street and Union Avenue), and later Ridgewood (where Club Trentino continues to this day) and nearby areas in southwestern Queens. However, most speakers raised their children in either standard Italian or English or both of those languages, although older speakers remain, primarily from the immigrant generation, and some semi-speakers.
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