Bustocco and Legnanese

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Bustocco and Legnanese
Spoken in:	Italy
Total speakers:	~50,000
Language family:	Indo-European  Italic   Romance    Italo-Western     Western      Gallo-Romance       Gallo-Italic        Lombard         Western Lombard          Bustocco and Legnanese
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	roa
ISO 639-3:	lmo – Lombard
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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.

v • d • e Western Lombard language Dialects and group of dialects: Milanese or Meneghin • Bustocco and Legnanese • Brianzöö or Brianzoeu (Canzés, Canturino, Monzese) • Comasco-Lecchese (Comasco, Laghée, Intelvese, Vallassinese, Lecchese, Valsassinese) • Ticinese (Ossolano) • Varesino or Bosin • Southwestern Lombard (Pavese, Lodigiano, Nuaresat, Cremunéez) • Alpine Lombard (Valtellinese, Chiavennasco) • Slangs: Spasell Literature: Insubric literature • Insubric writers (Bonvesin de la Riva, Carlo Maria Maggi, Carlo Porta, Giuseppe Parini, Giuseppe Bossi, Alessandro Manzoni, Tommaso Grossi, Delio Tessa) Grammar: Insubric grammar (Milanese grammar) • Orthography (Classical Milanese orthography, Alternative Insubric orthographies) • Other (Plural inflection in Western Lombard)