Ticinese

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Ticinese ticines, ticinées
Spoken in:	Switzerland
Total speakers:
Language family:	Indo-European  Italic   Romance    Italo-Western     Western      Gallo-Iberian       Gallo-Romance        Gallo-Italic         Lombard          Ticinese
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	roa
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	lmo — Lombard
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Ticinese (ticines, ticinées) is a comprehensive denomination for the Lombard language varieties spoken in Canton Ticino (Tessin).

The Ticinese koiné (Italian: koinè ticinese) is the Western Lombard koiné used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the koinè itself, as e.g. Leventinese, etc.) when communicating with speakers of other Lombard dialects of Ticino, the Grisons or Italian Lombardy.

[edit] External links

Some video and audio documents (interviews, recordings, etc. of writers from Ticino) in Ticinese varieties can be found at the following site: RTSI: Acquarelli popolari (please notice that the metalanguage of this site is Italian, and that some of the interviews are in Italian rather than in Ticinese Lombard).

[edit] Bibliography

• Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia, LSI – Lessico dialettale della Svizzera italiana, Bellinzona 2004.

• Comrie, Bernard, Matthews, Stephen and Polinsky, Maria: The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World. Rev. ed., New York 2003.

• Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.): Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Vol. 1, 2000.

• Lurà, Franco: Il dialetto del Mendrisiotto, Mendrisio–Chiasso 1987.

• Lurati, Ottavio: Dialetto e italiano regionale nella Svizzera italiana, Lugano 1976.

• Petrini, Dario: La koinè ticinese (Romanica Helvetica vol. 105), Bern 1988.

• VSI – Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana, Lugano / Bellinzona 1952–.