Paulistalian language
Paulistalian (baolistaliano) is an Italian-Brazilian language, which developed from a mixture of Venetian, Neapolitan languages and Calabrian dialects to the Caipira dialect. It was a language spoken by Italian immigrants and their descendants in São Paulo.[1][2] From the 1910s onwards, it began to be filtered and used in periodicals, usually in political or comic publications; the pioneers in the initial filtering and dissemination of Paulistalian were the poets Oswald de Andrade and Alexandre Marcondes Machado, although both were not of Italian origin.
Origin name
According to most sources, the name "paulistalian" was invented by Monteiro Lobato, originally unifying the term paulista, in reference to the population of the state of São Paulo, with italiano, which means ‘Italian’ in Portuguese.
According to Cecília Prada (1929-1924), the Italian language, in its various dialectal aspects, prevailed in the linguistic fusion of São Paulo, giving rise to a true language that Monteiro Lobato even baptised as 'Paulistalian.'[3]
Other personalities called the language by other names. The writer António de Alcântara Machado always used the name "italo-paulista," while others, such as Otto Maria Carpeaux used the term "macaronic" because of the mixed aspect of the language, but especially in reference to the Paulistalian of the writer Alexandre Marcondes Machado, which was often written in a disorganised way.[4]
References
- ↑ Percursos do moderno e do nacional em Oswald de Andrade (PDF). p. 29
- ↑ BASTIANETTO, Patrizia Collina. 12 retextualizações (PDF). p. 54
- ↑ O velho bairro que não é bairro
- ↑ Vista do Juó Bananere, o raté do modernismo paulista?pp. 113-114
