Lombard is a Gallo-Italic language native to the Italian region of Lombardy, also spoken in Piedmont, South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy and in the Swiss cantons of Grisons and Ticino, with a further community in Santa Catarina, Brazil descended from Bergamo immigrants. It had about 3.8 million native speakers as of 2002. Though long treated as an Italian dialect, Lombard belongs to a separate Gallo-Italic branch of Romance with its own historical development, distinct from the Tuscan origin of Standard Italian, and carries no official recognition in either Italy or Switzerland.
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RegionThese 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. 1 Speaker Communityis a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland. 1 Distinguishing FeaturesThe Celtic substratum of modern Lombard and the neighbouring languages of Northern Italy is self-evident and so the Lombard language is classified as a Gallo-Italic language (from the ancient Roman name for the Celts, Galli). 1 Classification
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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.
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is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
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The Celtic substratum of modern Lombard and the neighbouring languages of Northern Italy is self-evident and so the Lombard language is classified as a Gallo-Italic language (from the ancient Roman name for the Celts, Galli).
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Lombard is a Gallo-Italic language native to the Italian region of Lombardy, also spoken in Piedmont, South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy and in the Swiss cantons of Grisons and Ticino, with a further community in Santa Catarina, Brazil descended from Bergamo immigrants.
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