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Comasco Lecchese dialects

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Native to
  
Italy

Glottolog
  
None

Native speakers
  
300,000 (date missing)

Language family
  
Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Lombard Western 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, especially around the capital cities and north of them. In other parts of this provinces, other Western Lombard varieties are spoken (Brianzoeu and Bustocco-Legnanese).

The most important dialects are:

  • Comasco (spoken in the city and suburbs of Como)
  • Laghée (spoken on the lake coast north to the city)
  • Intelvese (spoken in Val d'Intelvi)
  • Vallassinese (various subdialects spoken in the Vallassìna valley)
  • Lecchese (spoken in the city and suburbs of Lecco)
  • Valsassinese (spoken in the Valsàssina valley)

    • References

    Comasco-Lecchese dialects Wikipedia
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