Lombard (Lombard: lombard, lumbart, lombart, lumbard, based on the orthography) is a Gallo-Italic leid that is spoak i Lombardy, Piemont, an Trentino i Italy, Grisons an Ticino i Swisserland, an Santa Catarina i Brazil. Lombard is descendit fae Auld Lombard, that wis spoak fae the 13t tae 14t yeirhunner. Lombard haes 3.8 million spikkers, shawn i a report fae 2002.

Lombard
lombard, lumbard, lumbart, lombart
Native tae
RegionItaly[1][2][3]

Swisserland[1][2][3]

Brazil[4]

Native speakers
3.8 million (2002)[5]
Early forms
Dialects
Laitin
Leid codes
ISO 639-3lmo
Glottologlomb1257[7]
Linguasphere51-AAA-oc & 51-AAA-od
Lombard language distribution in Europe:
  Areas where Lombard is spoak
  Areas where Lombard is spoak alang wi ither leids (Alemannic, Ladin and Romansh) an areas o linguistic transition (wi Piedmontese, wi Emilian an wi Venetian)
  Areas o influence o Lombard (Tridentine dialeck)
? Areas o uncertain diffusion o Ladin
Lombard is classified as Definitely Endangered bi the UNESCO Atlas o the Warld's Leids i Danger
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References

eedit
  1. a b Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups. Westport.
  2. a b Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. New York.
  3. a b Coluzzi, Paolo (2007). Minority language planning and micronationalism in Italy. Berne.
  4. Spoak i Botuverá, i Brazil, municipality estaiblished bi Italian migrants comin' fae the valley atween Treviglio an Crema. A thesis o Leiden University anent Brasilian Bergamasque: [1].
  5. Lombard at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  6. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (10 Julie 2023). "Glottolog 4.8 - Piemontese-Lombard". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived frae the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  7. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lombard". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.