which is this language?

I was browsing on the internet and suddenly I came across this article on the Wikipedia which is in a language I’ve never seen before and which I cannot locate:

Another article in the same language:

I tried to look around the page but I couldn’t find which language it is. It’s a Latin language, because I can understand it properly (I’m catalan), but no idea what’s the name.

Thanks!

Is that Esperanto?

ETA: err, no it’s not.

Go to the main page using the links on the left. Says it’s in Lombardo Orientale.

I was in Lombardia a couple years ago and the linguistic situation of Lombardo is similar to that of XIX century Catalan: there’s schools where you can learn it, there’s a regionalist movement trying to preserve the language, but it’s going uphill against TV and school in “Romano”.

De nada i benvingut :slight_smile:

Looking at the source of the page, the “lmo” domain refers to Lumbaart, or the language of Lombardy. And I must say, I’m loving some of the words:

It’s Lombard, according to this page Wikipedia:Grott - Wikipedia

Thank you all. I knew there were different dialects in italy, like siciliano and napolitano, and also I knew about Sard language, but i never heard about Lombard untill today. One guesses it’s not a broadly spoken language, even though in the wikipedia page it says that they have more than 9 milion speakers…

Nava, where are you from?

C ya! :wink:

Wow, what a bizarre orthography. Some of it looks very typical Romance, but then there’s all these double vowels with diaraesis that are really so strange.

Still, I’m impressed that there are nearly 10,000 articles (though I suspect that’s the work of three really busy Lombards).