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| Eastern Lombard | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Italy |
| Region | Lombardy (Province of Bergamo, Province of Brescia, northern Province of Mantua, northern and central Province of Cremona) Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (western Trentino), Santa Catarina (Vale do Itajaí) |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 2.5 million[citation needed]) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | east2276east2278 |
| Linguasphere | -odb; -odc 51-AAA-oda; -odb; -odc |
Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino.[2] Its main variants are Bergamasque and Brescian.[3][4]
In Italian-speaking contexts, Eastern Lombard is often called a dialetto (lit. 'dialect'), understood to mean not a variety of Italian, but a local language that is part of the Romance languages dialect continuum that pre-dates the establishment of Tuscan-based Italian.
Eastern Lombard and Italian have only limited mutual intelligibility, like many other Romance languages spoken in Italy.
Eastern Lombard does not have any official status either in Lombardy or anywhere else: the only official language in Lombardy is Italian.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Piemontese-Lombard". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-29. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ^ Bonfadini, Giovanni 1983 Il confine linguistico veneto-lombardo In: Guida ai dialetti veneti / a cura di Manlio Cortelazzo. - Padova : CLEUP, 1983. - V. 5, p. 23–59
- ^ Enciplopedia Treccani Online
- ^ "M. Forzati, Dialèt de Brèsa (dialetto Bresciano)". Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2013-03-11.