Lombard

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Lombard is a Gallo-Italic Romance language traditionally spoken in and around Milan and across much of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gallo-Italic language
Romance language
regional language
closelyRelatedTo Emilian-Romagnol
Ligurian
Occitan
Piedmontese
country Italy
Switzerland
distinctFrom Lombardic
Standard Italian
family Indo-European languages
hasDialect Bergamasque
Brescian
Camuno
Comasco
Cremonese (Lombard variety)
Eastern Lombard
Lecchese
Lodigiano
Milanese
Ticinese
Valchiavennasco
Valtellinese
Western Lombard
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Gaulish
Germanic languages
Latin
Standard Italian
hasMorphologicalFeature subject clitics in many dialects
hasPhonologicalFeature lenition of intervocalic consonants in many dialects
vowel length distinctions in some dialects
languageCodeISO_639_3 lmo
recognizedStatus minority language in Switzerland
regional language (various local recognitions in Italy)
region Northern Italy
spokenIn Graubünden NERFINISHED
Lombardy
Milan
Piedmont
Swiss canton of Ticino
eastern Piedmont
parts of Emilia-Romagna
southern Switzerland
western Trentino
subfamily Italic languages
Romance languages
subgroup Gallo-Italic languages
Gallo-Romance languages
traditionalCenter Milan
usedIn local literature
music
popular poetry
theatre
writingSystem Latin script


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