Ticinese dialect
Lombard dialects of Ticino, Switzerland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ticinese dialect is the set of dialects, belonging to the Alpine and Western branch of the Lombard language,[3] spoken in the northern part of the Canton of Ticino[4] (Sopraceneri); the dialects of the region can generally vary from valley to valley, often even between single localities,[4] while retaining the mutual intelligibility that is typical of the Lombard linguistic continuum.[5]
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Ticinese | |
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Ticinees | |
Native to | Switzerland |
Region | Switzerland: Ticino (Sopraceneri) |
Native speakers | 108,000 (2011)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | tici1238 |
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Ticinese koiné refers instead to a koiné form used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the koiné itself, as, e.g., Leventinese, etc.) when communicating with speakers of other Western Lombard dialects of Ticino, the Grisons (collectively known as Swiss Italian) or Italian Lombardy.[6]