Valchiavennasco

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Valchiavennasco is a regional variety of the Lombard language spoken in the Valchiavenna area of northern Italy.

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Label Occurrences
Valchiavennasco canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gallo-Italic variety
Lombard dialect
regional language variety
classificationStatus considered a dialect of Lombard by many linguists
country Italy
culturalAssociation local traditions of Valchiavenna
oral folklore of Valchiavenna
endangeredStatus declining use among younger speakers
geographicQualifier northern Italy
hasAlternativeName Valchiavennasco Lombard
Valchiavennino
hasFeature Lombard lexicon
Northern Italian phonology
consonant lenition typical of Lombard
distinct local vocabulary from Italian
use of clitic pronouns
vowel reduction patterns typical of Lombard
hasMorphologicalTrait Lombard verb conjugation patterns
hasPhonologicalTrait features shared with other Alpine Lombard varieties
hasSyntacticTrait subject clitic usage
influencedBy Italian language
surface form: Standard Italian

neighboring Lombard dialects
isDistinctFrom Central Lombard
Comasco
Milanese
Italian language
surface form: Standard Italian
languageFamily Gallo‑Italic languages
surface form: Gallo-Italic languages

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

Italic languages
Romance languages
Western Romance languages
partOf Lombard language
surface form: Western Lombard
region Alpine area
spokenIn Italy
Lombardy
Province of Sondrio
Valchiavenna
subclassOf Lombard language
typicalDomain family context
local community life
oral communication
usedBy inhabitants of Valchiavenna
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Lombard hasDialect Valchiavennasco