Lombard | |
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lombard, lumbard, lumbart, lombart | |
Native to | |
Region | Italy[1][2][3]
Brazil[4] |
Native speakers | 3.8 million (2002)[5] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
Dialects | |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lmo |
Glottolog | lomb1257 |
Linguasphere | & 51-AAA-od 51-AAA-oc & 51-AAA-od |
![]() Lombard language distribution in Europe:
Areas where Lombard is spoken
Areas where Lombard is spoken alongside other languages (Alemannic, Ladin and Romansh) and areas of linguistic transition (with Piedmontese, with Emilian and with Venetian)
Areas of influence of Lombard (Tridentine dialect)
? Areas of uncertain diffusion of Ladin | |
![]() Lombard is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Lombard language (native name: lombard,[N 1] lumbard,[N 2][7] lumbart[N 3] or lombart,[N 4] depending on the orthography; pronunciation: [lũˈbaːrt, lomˈbart]) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages and is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum[8] and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden.[9] The language is also spoken in Santa Catarina in Brazil by Lombard immigrants from the Province of Bergamo, in Italy.[4][10]
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Identifier: LMO - Language(s) Name: Lombard - Status: Active - Code set: 639-3 - Scope: Individual - Type: Living
Lombard (Lumbard, ISO 639-9 lmo) is a cluster of essentially homogeneous varieties (Tamburelli 2014: 9) belonging to the Gallo-Italic group. It is spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy, in the Novara province of Piedmont and in Switzerland. Mutual intelligibility between Lombard and Italian has been reported as very low (Tamburelli 2014). Although some Lombard varieties, Milanese in particular, enjoy a rather long and prestigious literary tradition, Lombard is now used mostly in informal domains. According to Ethnologue, Piedmontese and Lombard are respectively spoken by between 1,600,000 and 2,000,000 speakers and around 3,500,000 speakers. Those are very high figures for languages that have never been recognised officially or systematically taught in schools.
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