Eastern Lombard dialects

Eastern Lombard
Eastern Lombard
Native to	Italy
Region	Lombardy (Province of Bergamo, Province of Brescia, northern Province of Mantua, northern and central Province of Cremona) ; Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (western Trentino), Santa Catarina (Vale do Itajaí)
Native speakers	(undated figure of 2.5 million)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Lombard–Piedmontese? Lombard Eastern Lombard; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	east2276; east2278
Linguasphere	51-AAA-oda; -odb; -odc

Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are Bergamasque and Brescian.

In Italian-speaking contexts, Eastern Lombard is often called a dialetto ("dialect"), understood to mean not a variety of Italian, but a local language that is part of the Romance languages dialect continuum that pre-dates the establishment of Tuscan-based Italian.

Eastern Lombard and Italian have only limited mutual intelligibility, like many other Romance languages spoken in Italy.

Eastern Lombard does not have any official status either in Lombardy or anywhere else: the only official language in Lombardy is Italian.

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