Western Lombard dialects
Western Lombard | |
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Milanes/Milanées, Insubrigh/Insübrich, lumbard ucidental | |
Native to | Italy, Switzerland |
Region | Italy
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Native speakers | unknown[1] |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | west2343 |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-odd ... 51-AAA-odj |
Western Lombard is a group of dialects of
Western Lombard and Italian
In Italian-speaking contexts, Western Lombard is often incorrectly called a
/o/, /ɔ/ and the development of /ts/ into /s/.Western Lombard has no official status in Lombardy or anywhere else. The only official language in Lombardy is Italian.
Grammar
The general lines of diachronics of Western Lombard plural declension are drawn here, with reference to
Feminine
Most feminine words end with the inflection -a; the feminine
Masculine
Most masculine nouns lack inflections, and the plural masculine is always non-inflected (el tramvaj/i tramvaj; el lett/i lett ). When the word stem ends with a particular group of consonants, both singular and plural forms can add a schwa between consonants; otherwise, a final -o (pron. /u/) is added to singular nouns, -i for plurals.
Masculine words ending in -in or, less commonly, in -ett, have plurals in -itt (fiolin/fiolitt). Those ending in -ll have plurals in -j, (el sidell/i sidej ; el porscell/i porscej ; el cavall / i cavaj). The same occurs in the determinate article: singular ell > el, plural elli > ej > i.
Masculine words ending in -a are invariable and are proper nouns, words from Ancient Greek or idiomatic words such as pirla, a derogatory term for a person.
Varieties
Western Lombard can be divided into four main varieties: lombardo alpino (spoken in the provinces of Sondrio and of Verbania,
Examples of Western Lombard language are:[citation needed]
- Milanese or Meneghin(macromilanese)
- Bustocco and Legnanese
- Brianzöö(lombardo-prealpino occidentale - macromilanese)
- Monzese
- Comasco-Lecchese(lombardo-prealpino occidentale)
- Comasco
- Laghée
- Intelvese
- Vallassinese
- Lecchese
- Valsassinese
- Ossolano
- Varesino or Bosin(lombardo-prealpino occidentale)
- Alpine Lombard (lombardo alpino, influence from Ladin)[5]
- Valtellinese
- Chiavennasco
- Ticinese (lombardo alpino) (influence from Ladin)[6]
- Southwestern Lombard (basso-lombardo occidentale)
- Slangs
Phonology
The following information is based on the Milanese dialect:[11]
Consonants
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | ||
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Affricate
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voiceless | p | t
|
t͡ʃ | k | |
voiced | b | d
|
d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
Fricative
|
voiceless | f | s | ʃ | ||
voiced | v | z | ʒ | |||
Nasal | m | n
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ɲ | (ŋ) | ||
Rhotic | r
|
|||||
Approximant | lateral | l
|
(ʎ) | |||
central | j | w |
- [ŋ] occurs only as a nasal sound before velar stops.
- The central approximant sounds /j w/ are mainly heard as allophones of /i u/ when preceding vowels.
- [ʎ] is not typically pronounced, and only occurs in a few words from Italian.
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |||
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Close | i ĩ | y ỹ | u ũ | ||
Close-mid | e ẽ | ||||
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | ||
Open | a ã | ɑ | (ɒ) |
- A double vowel aa is pronounced as [ɑː] or [ɒː]. /a/ may also be pronounced as [ɑ].
Orthography
The most important orthography in Western Lombard literature is the Classical Milanese orthography. It was used by Carlo Porta (1775–1821) and Delio Tessa (1886–1939). It was perfected by the Circolo Filologico di Milano. Other orthographies are the Ticinese, the Comasca, the Bosina, the Nuaresat, and the Lecchese.[citation needed]
Literature
An extensive
See also
- Languages of Italy
- Milanese
- Insubric literature
- Romance languages
References
- ^ Although the upper bound to the number of speakers is around 2,500,000,[citation needed] this figure represents more closely the number of people who can understand Western Lombard. Because of immigration (mostly to Milan) from other parts of Italy, the use of Western Lombard is very rare in western Lombardy and most people are not able to speak it fluently.[citation needed]
- ^ Merlo, Clemente (1960). "I dialetti lombardi". Storia di Milano (in Italian). 13: L'età napoleonica, 1796–1814. Milan: Fondazione Treccani degli Alfieri: 466–475.
- ^ a b "Lombard". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ Gian Battista Pellegrini, Carta dei dialetti d'Italia, Pacini, Pisa, 1977.
- ^ Sanga, Glauco (1984). Dialettologia Lombarda Lingue e Cultura Popolari. Aurora Edizioni. p. 8.
- ^ Sanga, Glauco (1984). Dialettologia Lombarda Lingue e Cultura Popolari. Aurora Edizioni. p. 8.
- ^ Sanga, Glauco (1984). Dialettologia Lombarda Lingue e Cultura Popolari. Aurora Edizioni. p. 8.
- ^ Maiden, Martin; Mair Perry, M (1997). Dialects of Italy. Psychology Press. p. 256.
- ^ Sanga, Glauco (1984). Dialettologia Lombarda Lingue e Cultura Popolari. Aurora Edizioni. p. 8.
- ^ Sanga, Glauco (1984). Dialettologia Lombarda Lingue e Cultura Popolari. Aurora Edizioni. p. 8.
- ^ Nicoli, Franco (1983). Grammatica Milanese. Busto Arsizio: Bramante editrice. pp. 31–74.
- ISBN 9788894518320.
Bibliography
- Andrea Rognoni, Grammatica dei dialetti della Lombardia, Oscar Mondadori, 2005.
- AA. VV., Parlate e dialetti della Lombardia. Lessico comparato, Mondadori, Milano 2003.