Bergamasque

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Bergamasque is a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken primarily in and around the city of Bergamo in northern Italy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gallo-Italic dialect
Romance language variety
classificationDebate sometimes considered a dialect of Lombard
sometimes considered a separate language within Gallo-Italic
closelyRelatedTo Brescian dialect
Eastern Lombard NERFINISHED
country Italy
distinctFrom Standard Italian NERFINISHED
Venetian language
Western Lombard NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Bergamasco NERFINISHED
Bergamàsch
hasCulturalRole marker of local identity in Bergamo area
hasDialect Lower Val Seriana variety
Upper Val Seriana variety
Val Brembana variety
city of Bergamo variety
hasISOStatus no separate ISO 639-3 code
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Italian NERFINISHED
Latin NERFINISHED
neighboring Lombard varieties
hasMorphologicalFeature two-gender system
use of clitic subject pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between open and closed mid vowels
vowel reduction in unstressed syllables
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Italic languages NERFINISHED
Romance languages
partOf Lombard language continuum NERFINISHED
region Po Valley NERFINISHED
spokenIn Bergamo NERFINISHED
Lombardy NERFINISHED
Province of Bergamo NERFINISHED
northern Italy NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Gallo-Italic languages NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Italian
typologicalFeature predominantly analytic verb morphology compared to Latin
usedBy inhabitants of Bergamo and surrounding valleys
usedIn local folk songs
local literature
theatre and comic sketches
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Brescian closelyRelatedTo Bergamasque
Valtellinese hasCloseRelationWith Bergamasque
Lombard language hasDialect Bergamasque