Old Lombard dialect

Old Lombard
lonbardo, lombardesco
Native toItaly
RegionNorthern Italy, specifically the Lordship of Milan, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, and Bressa.
EthnicityLombards
EraEvolved into Modern Lombard, Siculo-Lombard and Lucano-Lombard in the end of the 14th century.
Early forms
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Old Lombard (Old Lombard: lombardesco, lonbardo) is an Old Gallo-Italic dialect and the earliest form of Lombard. Spoken in the 13th and 14th centuries within the Late Middle Ages, several folks such as the Milanese writers Bonvesin da la Riva and Pietro da Barsegapé in the Duecento wrote in this dialect.

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