Lombard Language (lmo)

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Also Known As: Lombardo,Lombard


Description:

Lombard is a member of the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages. It is spoken natively in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions, notably the eastern side of Piedmont) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden) as well as by small communities of Lombard immigrants throughout South America. The two main varieties (Western Lombard language and Eastern Lombard language) show remarkable differences and are not always mutually comprehensible. The union of Western Lombard or Insubric, Eastern Lombard and intermediate varieties under the denomination of "Lombard" is a matter of debate, and it has been argued that the two might potentially form separate languages .

Lombard is considered a minority language, structurally separated from Italian by the Ethnologue reference catalogue and by the UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages. Nevertheless, it must be noted that the Italian Republic does not recognise Lombard speakers as a linguistic minority. This official line is the same as for most other minority languages in Italy, and is partly a consequence of the erroneous reference to those minority languages as Italian dialects—even though..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Lombard Language Speakers

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Overview

Main Country: Italy
Spoken In:

Regions: Europe

ISO 639-3 Code: lmo

Classification Taxonomy

All Languages

  Indo-European Group

    Italic Group

      Romance Group

        Italo-Western Group

          Western Italo-Western Group

            Gallo-Iberian Group

              Gallo-Romance Group

                Gallo-Italian Group

                  Lombard Language

                    Western Lombard