Piedmontese language
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- Work cat: Venasca, 2008:p. 45, etc. (Chiefly a dictionary of geographic names in the region of Venasca (a city in Cuneo Province, Italy) where Piedmontese is typically spoken)
- Ethnologue, viewed May 28, 2020:(Piedmontese, a language of Italy: Alternate name: Piemontese; Autonym: Piemontèis; User population: 700,000 in Italy; Location: Lombardy region: small communities along Po river north bank, across from Valenza; Piedmont region: all provinces except Novara province, excluding Occitan- and Arpitan-speaking Alpine valleys; Valle d'Aosta region; Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Italian; Distinct enough from standard Italian [ita] to be considered a separate language. Considerable French [fra] influence)
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Piedmontese (English: PEED-mon-TEEZ; autonym: piemontèis [pjemʊŋˈtɛjz] or lenga piemontèisa; Italian: piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regarded as an Italian dialect. It is linguistically part of the Gallo-Italic languages group from Northern Italy (with Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian and Romagnol), making it part of the wider western group of Romance languages, which also includes French, Arpitan, Occitan, and Catalan. It is spoken in the core of Piedmont, in northwestern Liguria (near Savona), and in Lombardy (some municipalities in the westernmost part of Lomellina near Pavia). It has some support from the Piedmont regional government but is considered a dialect rather than a separate language by the Italian central government. Due to the Italian diaspora Piedmontese has spread in the Argentine Pampas, where many immigrants from Piedmont settled, the Piedmontese language is also spoken in some states of Brazil, alongside the Venetian language.
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