Lombardic language

Lombardic
Langobardic
Region	Pannonia and Italy
Extinct	11th century
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic Upper German Lombardic
Writing system	Runic script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lng
Linguist List	lng
Glottolog	None
Italy at the time of the Lombards
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Lombardic or Langobardic is an extinct West Germanic language that was spoken by the Lombards (Langobardi), the Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century. It was already declining by the seventh century because the invaders quickly adopted the Latin vernacular spoken by the local population. Lombardic may have been in use in scattered areas until as late as c. 1000 AD. Many toponyms in modern Lombardy and Greater Lombardy (Northern Italy) and items of Lombard and broader Gallo-Italic vocabulary derive from Lombardic.

Lombardic is a Trümmersprache (literally, 'rubble-language'), that is, a language preserved only in fragmentary form: there are no texts in Lombardic, only individual words and personal names cited in Latin law codes, histories and charters. As a result, there are many aspects of the language about which nothing is known.^[1][2]