Back Lombardu occidental AST Западноломбардски език Bulgarian Llombard occidental Catalan Lombardo occidental Spanish گویش لومبارد غربی Persian Lombard occidental French מילאנזית HE Dialetto lombardo occidentale Italian 西ロンバルド語 Japanese Lingua Insubris Latin
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| Western Lombard | |
|---|---|
| Milanes/Milanées, Insubrigh/Insübrich, lumbard ucidental | |
| Native to | Italy, Switzerland |
| Region | Italy |
Native speakers | unknown[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | west2343 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-odd ... 51-AAA-odj |
Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi and Pavia, and the Piedmont provinces of Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, the eastern part of the Province of Alessandria (Tortona), a small part of Vercelli (Valsesia), and Switzerland (the Canton of Ticino and part of the Canton of Graubünden). After the name of the region involved, land of the former Duchy of Milan, this language is often referred to as Insubric (see Insubria and Insubres) or Milanese, or, after Clemente Merlo, Cisabduano (literally "of this side of Adda River").[2]
- ^ Although the upper bound to the number of speakers is around 2,500,000,[citation needed] this figure represents more closely the number of people who can understand Western Lombard. Because of immigration (mostly to Milan) from other parts of Italy, the use of Western Lombard is very rare in western Lombardy and most people are not able to speak it fluently.[citation needed]
- ^ Merlo, Clemente (1960). "I dialetti lombardi". Storia di Milano (in Italian). 13: L'età napoleonica, 1796–1814. Milan: Fondazione Treccani degli Alfieri: 466–475.
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