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Lombard language
The term Lombard refers to a group of related varieties spoken mainly in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden). Lombard belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages.The two main varieties (Western Lombard language and Eastern Lombard language) show remarkable differences and are not always mutually comprehensible even if Western Lombard is generally more easy to understand for an Eastern Lombard speaker than the converse. The union of Western Lombard or Insubric, Eastern Lombard or Orobic and intermediate varieties under the denomination of "Lombard" is simply conventional and not based on linguistic analysis, but on the prevalent diffusion of both in Lombardy region.
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