Pavese (dialect)

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Pavese
Spoken in: Italy
Total speakers: 30,000
Language family: Indo-European
 Italic
  Romance
   Italo-Western
    Western
     Gallo-Romance
      Gallo-Italic
       Lombard
        Western Lombard
         Southwestern Lombard
          Pavese
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: roa
ISO 639-3: lmo – Lombard

Pavese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia (Lombardy). In Pavese, differently from most of Western Lombard dialects, the "z" (ts or dz) is transformed into "s".

In the past, before the influence of Milanese, Pavese was more similar to Emiliano-Romagnolo language. In Lomellina a Piedmontese-influenced dialect is spoken; in the Oltrepò Pavese fully Western Lombard dialects (like that of Bobbio) or Emiliano-Romagnolo-influenced dialects (like that of Broni) are spoken; the southern part of the province of Pavia speaks Ligurian-influenced dialects.

Pavese is the language of I Fiö dla Nebia and Quèi Ad La Barcéla, two popular musical groups.