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Western Lombard dialects, the Glossary

Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy.^[1]

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Endangered Romance languages
Western Lombard language

Adda (river)

The Adda (Latin: Abdua, or Addua; Lombard: Ada or, again, Adda in local dialects where the double consonants are marked) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po.

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Brianzöö (modern orthography) or Brianzoeu (historical orthography) is a group of variants (Prealpine and Western Lombard – macromilanese) of the Western variety of the Lombard language, spoken in the region of Brianza. Western Lombard dialects and Brianzöö dialect are western Lombard language.

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Bustocco and Legnanese dialects

Bustocco and Legnanese (natively büstócu and legnanés) are two dialects of Western Lombard, spoken respectively in the cities of Busto Arsizio (Province of Varese) and Legnano (Province of Milan), Lombardy. Western Lombard dialects and Bustocco and Legnanese dialects are western Lombard language.

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Carlo Porta

Carlo Porta (Lombard: Carlo Porta) (15 June 1775 – 5 January 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the prestige dialect of the Lombard language). Western Lombard dialects and Carlo Porta are western Lombard language.

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Central consonant

A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Classical Milanese orthography

The classical Milanese orthography is the orthography used for the Western Lombard language, in particular for the Milanese dialect, by the major poets and writers of this literature, such as Carlo Porta, Carlo Maria Maggi, Delio Tessa, etc. Western Lombard dialects and classical Milanese orthography are western Lombard language.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Comasco dialect

Comasco (label), anglicized as Comasque, is a dialect belonging to the Western branch of Lombard language, spoken in the city and suburbs of Como. Western Lombard dialects and Comasco dialect are western Lombard language.

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Comasco-Lecchese dialects

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. Western Lombard dialects and Comasco-Lecchese dialects are western Lombard language.

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Crema, Lombardy

Crema (Cremish Lombard: Crèma) is a city and comune in the province of Cremona, in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Cremunés dialect

Cremonese (Cremunés) is a dialect of the Western Lombard dialect group spoken in the city and province of Cremona in Lombardy, Italy, with the exception of Crema and the area of Soresina, where an Eastern Lombard dialect is spoken, and the area of Casalmaggiore, where a form of Emilian closely related to Parmigiano is spoken. Western Lombard dialects and Cremunés dialect are western Lombard language.

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Delio Tessa

Delio Tessa (18 November 1886 – 21 September 1939) was an Italian poet from Milan who wrote dialect poetry. Western Lombard dialects and Delio Tessa are western Lombard language.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Dialect

Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.

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Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan (Ducato di Milano; Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277.

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Eastern Lombard dialects

Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino.

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Emilian dialects

Emilian (Reggian, Parmesan and Modenese: emigliân, Bolognese: emigliàn; emiliano) is a Gallo-Italic unstandardised language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, which is now in the western part of Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy.

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Emilian–Romagnol

Emilian-Romagnol (emiliano-romagnolo) is a linguistic continuum that is part of the Gallo-Italic languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Gallo-Italic languages

The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol.

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Gallo-Romance languages

The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal.

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Gospel

Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.

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Grisons

The Grisons or Graubünden,Names include.

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Insubres

The Insubres or Insubri were an ancient Celtic population settled in Insubria, in what is now the Italian region of Lombardy.

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Insubria

Insubria 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).

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Italo-Western languages

Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Ladin language

Ladin (autonym: ladin; ladino; Ladinisch) is a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, and Belluno, by the Ladin people.

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Laghée dialect

Laghée (literally "of the Lake") is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the north of province of Como (Lombardy), on the coast of the eponymous lake. Western Lombard dialects and Laghée dialect are western Lombard language.

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Languages of Italy

The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local and regional languages, most of which, like Italian, belong to the broader Romance group.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Lecchese dialect

Lecchese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the city and suburbs of Lecco (Lombardy). Western Lombard dialects and Lecchese dialect are western Lombard language.

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Life of Jesus

The life of Jesus is primarily outlined in the four canonical gospels, which includes his genealogy and nativity, public ministry, passion, prophecy, resurrection and ascension.

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Ligurian language

Ligurian (endonym: lìgure) or Genoese (endonym: zeneise or zeneize) is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco (where it is called Monégasque), the village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off the coast of southwestern Sardinia.

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List of Milanese dialect writers

This is a list of writers in the Milanese dialect, including poets and playwrights. Western Lombard dialects and list of Milanese dialect writers are western Lombard language.

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Lombard language

The Lombard language (native name: lombard,Classical Milanese orthography, and. lumbard,Ticinese orthography. lumbartModern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or lombart,Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronunciation) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages and is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden.

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Lombardy

Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Milanese dialect

Milanese (endonym in traditional orthography Milanes, Meneghin) is the central variety of the Western dialect of the Lombard language spoken in Milan, the rest of its metropolitan city, and the northernmost part of the province of Pavia. Western Lombard dialects and Milanese dialect are western Lombard language.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Novarese Lombard

Novarese, locally pronounced Nuares, is a dialect of the Western Lombard language spoken in the province of Novara (Piedmont). Western Lombard dialects and Novarese Lombard are western Lombard language.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Ossolano

Ossolano is the dialect spoken in the Ossola valley in North West Italy. Western Lombard dialects and Ossolano are western Lombard language.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Pavese dialect

Pavese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia (Lombardy). Western Lombard dialects and Pavese dialect are western Lombard language.

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Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piemont), located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Piedmontese language

Piedmontese (autonym: piemontèis or lenga piemontèisa; piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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Province of Alessandria

The province of Alessandria (provincia di Alessandria; provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: provinsa ëd Lissändria) is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont.

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Province of Como

The province of Como (provincia di Como; Comasco: pruincia de Comm) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Cremona

The province of Cremona (provincia di Cremona; Cremunés: pruvìncia de Cremùna; pruìnsa de Cremùna; Casalasco-Viadanese: pruvìncia ad Cramòna) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Lecco

The province of Lecco (provincia di Lecco; Lecchese: pruincia de Lècch) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Lodi

The province of Lodi (provincia di Lodi; Ludesan: pruincia de Lod) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Milan

The province of Milan (provincia di Milano) was a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Monza and Brianza

The province of Monza and Brianza (provincia di Monza e della Brianza; provincia de Monscia e de la Brianza) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Novara

The province of Novara (provincia di Novara) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.

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Province of Pavia

The province of Pavia (provincia di Pavia) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Sondrio

The province of Sondrio (provincia di Sondrio) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Varese

The province of Varese (provincia di Varese) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

The province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.

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Province of Vercelli

The province of Vercelli (provincia di Vercelli) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.

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Rhotic consonant

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Sopraceneri

The Sopraceneri ('Above the Ceneri'; Surascender) is the part of the Swiss canton of Ticino that lies to the north of the Monte Ceneri Pass through the Lugano Prealps.

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Southwestern Lombard

Southwestern Lombard is a group of dialects of Western Lombard language spoken in the provinces of Pavia, Lodi, Novara, Cremona, in the south of the historic Insubria, and comprises Pavese, Ludesan, Novarese, Cremunés and others. Western Lombard dialects and Southwestern Lombard are western Lombard language.

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Spasell

Spasell is a slang of Insubric language, spoken until the 19th century by inhabitants of Vallassina, when they used to go out from the valley for business and they didn't want to be understood by the people. Western Lombard dialects and Spasell are western Lombard language.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Ticinese dialect

The Ticinese dialect is the set of dialects, belonging to the Alpine and Western branch of the Lombard language, spoken in the northern part of the Canton of Ticino (Sopraceneri); the dialects of the region can generally vary from valley to valley, often even between single localities, while retaining the mutual intelligibility that is typical of the Lombard linguistic continuum. Western Lombard dialects and Ticinese dialect are western Lombard language.

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Ticino

Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Tortona

Tortona (Torton-a,; Dertona) is a comune of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy.

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Vallassinese dialect

Vallassinese is variety of the Western Lombard language spoken in the Vallassina valley of Italy (about 6,000 speakers). Western Lombard dialects and Vallassinese dialect are western Lombard language.

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Valsesia

Valsesia (Valsesia; Walser German: Tseschrutol) is a group of valleys in the north-east of Piedmont in the Province of Vercelli, Italy; the principal valley is that of the river Sesia.

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Varesino dialect

Varesino, Varesotto or Bosin (from the name of storytellers; see bosinada) is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the Central province of Varese. Western Lombard dialects and Varesino dialect are western Lombard language.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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Vowel

A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

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Western Romance languages

Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Lombard_dialects

Also known as Insubric, Insubric language, Lodigiano dialect, Plural inflection in Western Lombard, Western Lombard, Western Lombard dialect, Western Lombard language, Western dialects of Lombard language.

, Nasal consonant, Novarese Lombard, Official language, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Ossolano, Palatal consonant, Pavese dialect, Piedmont, Piedmontese language, Plosive, Plural, Postalveolar consonant, Province of Alessandria, Province of Como, Province of Cremona, Province of Lecco, Province of Lodi, Province of Milan, Province of Monza and Brianza, Province of Novara, Province of Pavia, Province of Sondrio, Province of Varese, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Province of Vercelli, Rhotic consonant, Romance languages, Sopraceneri, Southwestern Lombard, Spasell, Switzerland, Ticinese dialect, Ticino, Tortona, Vallassinese dialect, Valsesia, Varesino dialect, Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness, Vowel, Western Romance languages.

Western Lombard dialects, the Glossary

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See also

Endangered Romance languages

Western Lombard language

References