Lombard language

Lombard
Lombard
lombard, lumbard, lumbart, lombart
Native to	Italy; Switzerland;
Region	Italy Lombardy; Piedmont; South Tyrol; Trentino; Switzerland Grisons; Ticino; Brazil Santa Catarina;
Native speakers	3.8 million (2002)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Lombard–Piedmontese? Lombard; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Italic Old Lombard ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Western Lombard; Eastern Lombard;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lmo
Glottolog	lomb1257
Linguasphere	& 51-AAA-od 51-AAA-oc & 51-AAA-od
	Lombard language distribution in northern Italy and Switzerland: Areas where Lombard is spoken Areas where Lombard is spoken alongside other languages (Alemannic, Ladin and Romansh) and areas of linguistic transition (with Piedmontese, with Emilian and with Venetian) Areas of influence of Lombard (Tridentine dialect) ? Areas of uncertain diffusion of Ladin

The Lombard language (Lombard: lombard, lumbard, lumbart or lombart, depending on the orthography; pronunciation: [lumˈbaːrt, lomˈbart]) 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 homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland. These include 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. The language is also spoken in Santa Catarina in Brazil by Lombard immigrants from the Province of Bergamo, in Italy.