Friulian Dialect Classification

This paper provides an overview of the classification of Friulian dialects. Two classifications have
been proposed by Francescato (1966) and Frau (1984), which are extremely similar: both of them argue
that Friulian is divided in three main dialectal areas dialects (Northern or Carnian, Central-Eastern, and
Western or Concordiese), each of them parted into subareas. This classification has been carried out in
the framework of isoglossic dialectology, basing mostly on materials collected for linguistic atlases.