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Lombard

Gallo-Italic language spoken in the Italian region of Lombardy
Intangible natural_language Q33754
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Summary

Lombard is a natural language[1]. Lombard draws 3,129 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #127 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Italy[3], Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Gallo-Italic[6], Piedmontese–Lombard[7]
  • Writing system: Latin script[8]
  • Commons category: Lombard language[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: lmo[10]
  • Coordinate location: 46, 10[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lombard language[12]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3,900,000[13]
  • Replaces: Old Lombard[14]
  • Native label: Lengua lombarda[15]
  • Different from: Lombardic[16]
  • UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[17]
  • Indigenous to: Canton of the Grisons[18], Canton of Ticino[19], Lombardy[20], Veneto[21], Emilia-Romagna[22], Province of Piacenza[23], Trentino[24]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LMO[25], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133114171[26]
  • Ethnologue language status: 6a Vigorous[27]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[28], syllabic language[29]
  • Has grammatical gender: feminine[30], masculine[31]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Lombard-language films[32]

Why It Matters

Lombard has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Lombard is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+3900000'}
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object, syllabic language
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → Lombardic
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