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.
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”.
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…
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.