Southwestern Lombard is a group of dialects of
Western Lombard language
Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi ...
spoken in the provinces
of Pavia,
Lodi,
Novara
Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...
,
Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...
, in the south of the historic
Insubria
Insubria ( Lombard: ''Insübria'') is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in Classical antiquity by the Insubres; the name can also refer to the Duchy of Milan (1395–1810). For several centuries this name sto ...
, and comprises
Pavese dialect
Paves is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia ( Lombardy). In Paves, differently from most of Western Lombard dialects, the "z" (''ts'' or ''dz'') is transformed into "s".
In the past, before the influence of Milanes ...
,
Ludesan dialect,
Nuaresat dialect,
Cremunéez dialect and others.
Bibliography
Andrea Rognoni, ''Grammatica dei Dialetti della Lombardia'',
Oscar Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
History
The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1 ...
Western Lombard language
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