The Lombard language belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages. It is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of h
Giovanni Bressani, author of satirical poems in the Bergamo dialect
Meneghino, a character from the Milanese theatre, who later became a mask of the commedia dell'arte
The LSI, published in 2004
Piedmontese is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly re
Lombard language
…Graubünden have some peculiarities of their own and some traits in common with Eastern Lombard but should be considered Western. Also, dialects from the Piedmontese provinces of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Novara, the Valsesia valley (province of Vercelli), and the city of Tortona are closer to Western Lombard than…
Diary kept in Piedmontese in the 19th century by Giacinto Tholosano, Barone di Valgrisanche
Welcome sign in Villanova Biellese / Vilaneuva Bielèisa in Piedmontese