Brescian

E370534

Brescian is a variety of the Lombard language traditionally spoken in and around the city of Brescia in northern Italy.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Brescian canonical 3
Bresciano 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gallo-Italic language variety
Lombard language variety
Romance language variety
regional language of Italy
belongsTo Western Romance languages
surface form: Western Romance subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Bergamasque
Lombard language
surface form: Eastern Lombard
hasAlternativeName Brescian
surface form: Bresciano

Bresà
Bresàan
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasGlottocode bres1238
hasISOCode lmo-bsc
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Italian
Latin
Venetian language
surface form: Venetian
hasLinguasphereCode 51-AAA-oc
hasMorphologicalFeature two-gender system (masculine and feminine)
use of clitic subject pronouns
hasNativeName bresà
bresàan
hasOrthographicVariation multiple competing spelling conventions
hasPhonologicalFeature palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
vowel length distinction in stressed syllables
hasStatus mainly oral language
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
historicalDevelopmentFrom Vulgar Latin
languageFamily Gallo‑Italic languages
surface form: Gallo-Italic languages

Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Italic languages
Romance languages
partOf Lombard language
surface form: Eastern Lombard dialect group
recognizedAs minority language in Lombardy
region eastern Lombardy
spokenIn Brescia
Lombardy
Province of Brescia
Northern Italy
surface form: northern Italy
subdivisionOf Lombard language
typologicallySimilarTo other Gallo-Italic varieties
undergoing language shift towards Italian
usedFor folk music
local literature
local media
theatre
usedIn toponymy in the Brescia area
writingSystem Latin alphabet

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lombard hasDialect Brescian
Lombard language hasDialect Brescian
Brescian hasAlternativeName Brescian
this entity surface form: Bresciano