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Bustocco and Legnanese

Infobox Language
name = Bustocco and Legnanese
familycolor = Indo-European
states = Italy
speakers = ~50,000
fam2 = Italic
fam3 = Romance
fam4 = Italo-Western
fam5 = Western
fam6 = Gallo-Romance
fam7 = Gallo-Italic
fam8 = Lombard
fam9 = Western Lombard
iso2=roa |lc1=lmo |ld1=Lombard |ll1=Lombard language

Bustocco and Legnanese are two similar dialects of Western Lombard language, spoken in the areas of Busto Arsizio (Province of Varese) and Legnano (Province of Milan).

They are characterised by the Ligurian substratum. While Legnanese is closer to Milanese dialect, Bustocco is very similar to Ligurian language. In fact, there is the unstressed vowel "u" at the end of masculine nouns and other words (e.g. Bustocco "gatu", "secu", "coldu", "büceu", "candu" = Legnanese "gatt", "secch", "cald", "bicér", "quand") and the elimination of some intervocalic consonants (e.g. Bustocco "lauà" = Legnanese "lavurà"). In both dialects the stressed "a" sounds like a mix between "a" and "o".

A comic theatral group called "I Legnanesi" uses Legnanese (with simplified grammar and lexicon heavily based on Italian) in its shows.

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