Lombard

Also known as Lombard language, lumbart, lombart, lumbaart

Gallo-Italic language spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy

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Lombard is a language spoken in the Lombardy region of northern Italy that belongs to the Gallo-Italic language family. It matters because it represents an important part of the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Lombardy region, distinct from standard Italian.

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Wikimedia language code: lmo
native label: Lengua lombarda
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3900000
Commons category: Lombard language
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133114171

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The Lombard language (Lombard: lombard, lumbard, lumbart or lombart, depending on the orthography; pronunciation: [lumˈbaːrt, lomˈbart]) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages. It is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland. These include most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden. The language is also spoken in Santa Catarina in Brazil by Lombard immigrants from the Province of Bergamo, in Italy.

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