Vallassinese is variety of the

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

Vallassina The Valassina or Vallassina is the valley of the upper tract of the river Lambro, situated in the Larian Triangle in the Province of Como, northern Italy. The most important settlement in the area is the town of Asso, from which the valley takes i ...

valley of Italy (about 6,000 speakers). It belongs to the

Comasco-Lecchese The group of dialects Comasco-Lecchese is part of the Western Lombard language and is spoken in the province of Como and province of Lecco in Italy, especially around the capital cities and north of them. In other parts of this provinces, other ...

group and it has many subdialects. Asso subdialect resembles to Canzés ( Brianzoeu group), but it has some characteristics from Valbrona dialect. Valbrona subdialect has influences from

Lecchese Lecchese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the city and suburbs of Lecco (Lombardy). Characteristics It has the characteristic, in contrast with the other Comasco-Lecchese dialects, to be influenced by Brianzöö, Valsassines ...

(

group) In

Sormano Sormano ( Valassinese lmo, Surman ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como. It is part of the mountain community of the Triangolo lariano, ...

Caglio Caglio ( Valassinese lmo, Caj ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 404 and an area of ...

, Rezzago there are influences from dialect of ''Pian del Tivano'' (north), which has isolated characteristics (like the presence of ''ò'' instead of stressed ''a'' in all closed syllables, phenomenon that you can sometimes see in Northern Brianzoeu but only in syllables closed by ''l'') and from Laghée. In

Lasnigo Lasnigo ( Valassinese ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 401 and an area of 5.6 k ...

Barni Barni is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is located around north of Milan and about northeast of Como. Barni borders the following municipalities: Lasnigo, Magreglio, Oliveto Lario and So ...

Magreglio Magreglio ( Valassinese lmo, Magrei ) is a small town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy. Twin towns * Friedberg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the seco ...

and Civenna there are influences from Laghée.

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