Novarese Lombard

Novarese
Nuares
Native to Italy
Native speakers
30,000 (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog nova1239[1]

Novarese, locally pronounced Nuares, is a dialect of the Western Lombard language spoken in the province of Novara (Piedmont).

The dialect is rarely used in the city, where the use of Italian language is preferred, largely because of high immigration from Mezzogiorno; Novarese is more often used in the surrounding rural areas. There are some elements of transition with the Piedmontese language, particularly on the eastern coasts of the Sesia river, creating several transition dialects.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Novarese Lombard". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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