Piedmontese language

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Piedmontese
piemontèis
Native to	Italy
Region	Northwest Italy: Piedmont Liguria Lombardy Aosta Valley
Native speakers	2,000,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Lombard–Piedmontese?[2] Piedmontese
Dialects	Judaeo-Piedmontese †
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Italy  Piedmont
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pms
Glottolog	piem1238
ELP	Piemontese
Linguasphere	51-AAA-of
Piedmontese language distribution in Europe:   Areas where Piedmontese is spoken (municipalities where Occitan and Arpitan presence is only de jure are included)   Areas where Piedmontese is spoken alongside other languages (Occitan, Arpitan and Alemannic) and areas of linguistic transition (with Ligurian and with Lombard)
Piedmontese was classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger in 2010
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Piedmontese (English: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/ PEED-mon-TEEZ; autonym: piemontèis [pjemʊŋˈtɛjz] or lenga piemontèisa; Italian: piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regarded as an Italian dialect.^[3] It is linguistically included in the Gallo-Italic languages group of Northern Italy (with Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian and Romagnolo), which would make it part of the wider western group of Romance languages, which also includes French, Occitan, and Catalan. It is spoken in the core of Piedmont, in northwestern Liguria (near Savona), and in Lombardy (some municipalities in the westernmost part of Lomellina near Pavia).

It has some support from the Piedmont regional government but is considered a dialect rather than a separate language by the Italian central government.^[3]

Due to the Italian diaspora Piedmontese has spread in the Argentinian Pampas, where many immigrants from Piedmont settled. The Piedmontese language is also spoken in some states of Brazil, along with the Venetian language.