Some other thousands live in diaspora communities in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Australia, and Belgium.

[4] The Agjenzie Regjonâl pe Lenghe Furlane suggests a five-dimensional model to characterise Friulian population: 1.

A people of farmers, therefore attached to the land and close to nature; organised in strong family structures and small village communities; hard-working with also good entrepreneurial skills; traditionalist and true to its word; 2.

A people of Christians, thus of believers, set within the great catholic tradition, gifted with the virtues of simplicity, humbleness, austerity, ability to withstand the rigors of life with patience and determination.

A Nordic population: and therefore strong, serious, slow, taciturn, disciplined, with good organizational skills and sense of community, but with a background of existential sadness that is soothed by hard work but also by wine and expressed by choral singing.

The first agricultural nucleus populated by a relatively large group of Friulian peasants arose not very distant from Reconquista, in the north of the province of Santa Fe.

The end of the First World War once again proposed emigration as one of the most suitable channels to solve the problems that afflicted the Friulian population.

Indeed, in the period 1989–1991, those who returned to Friuli-Venezia Giulia were children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Italians emigrated to Argentina in the first and second post-war.

[8] The first news concerning the possibility, for the inhabitants of the current region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, of reaching the lands of the interior of Brazil as emigrants dates back to 1872.

The remarkable increase in emigration within Friuli and Veneto in the second half of the 1880s derives from the worsening of the agrarian crisis, when inflows of agricultural products from abroad led to the fall in cereal prices.

Based on estimates for Italian immigrants in general until 1915, around 84% of those who arrived in the country from Friuli and Venezia Giulia until then would have remained in Brazil.

As for the region of Friuli, the factors attracting people back to their country were many, often combining with each other: the global recession of the beginning of the 1970s; the industrial and tourism development by areas that had once seen a critical exodus; the will to be a part of the reconstruction of the affected area by the earthquake in Friuli in 1976; the judicious laws of the regional administration aimed at encouraging returns.

[10] Right after the end of the First World War the migratory masses started to flow from Italy to Belgium.

These people had chosen to go individually, but some years later, departures were organized by Italian and Belgium authorities which wanted to help the migrants and help the Belgian Country.

They started a recruitement process which was managed by the Belgian employers offices, who transmitted the immigration forms to the Italian authorities.

Nevertheless, studies about the Rhaeto-Romance languages show phonetic commonalities with French,[12] which suggest unique roots.