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Lombardic is a Trümmersprache (literally, 'rubble-language'), that is, a language preserved only in fragmentary form: there are no texts in Lombardic, only individual words and personal names cited in Latin law codes, histories and charters. As a result, there are many aspects of the language about which nothing is known. [2] [3]
The Germanic Lombardic language also left strong traces in modern Lombard, as it was the variety of Germanic that was spoken by the Germanic Lombards (or Longobards), who settled in Northern Italy, which is called Greater Lombardy after them, and in other parts of the Italian Peninsula after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy.It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi and Pavia, and the Piedmont provinces of Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, the eastern part of the Province of Alessandria (), a small part of Vercelli (), and ...
Old Lombard (Old Lombard: lombardesco, lonbardo) is an Old Gallo-Italic dialect and the earliest form of Lombard.Spoken in the 13th and 14th centuries within the Late Middle Ages, several folks such as the Milanese writers Bonvesin da la Riva and Pietro da Barsegapé in the Duecento wrote in this dialect.
The runic inscription from the Pforzen buckle may be the earliest written example of Lombardic language Lombardic fragments are preserved in runic inscriptions. Primary source texts include short inscriptions in the Elder Futhark , among them the "bronze capsule of Schretzheim " (c. 600) and the silver belt buckle found in Pforzen , Ostallgäu ...
Lombard language is widely used in Lombardy, in diglossia with Italian. Lombard is a language [183] belonging to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum. [184]
Lombard language, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland Old Lombard , the form of the Lombard language from the 13th and 14th centuries Lombardic capitals , a decorative lettering style originally used in medieval manuscripts
Lombard is a member of the Cisalpine or Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages. It is spoken natively in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions, notably the eastern side of Piedmont) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden).