Cremunés dialect

Cremonese
Native to	Italy
Native speakers	30,000
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic Lombard or Emiliano-Romagnolo Western Lombard or Emiliano Southwestern Lombard or Western Emiliano Cremonese; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Cremonese (Cremunés) is a dialect of Western Lombard language group spoken in the city and province of Cremona in Lombardy, Italy (with the exception of Crema and the area of Soresina, where an Eastern Lombard dialect is spoken, and the area of Casalmaggiore, where is spoken Emiliano-Romagnolo).

Being at the crossroad between the core areas of different Lombard varieties, it shows some elements of both Western Lombard and Eastern Lombard and a few which are typical of dialects spoken in the nearby region of Emilia-Romagna, it is best classified as belonging to the Southwestern Lombard group of dialects.

Vowels

The Cremonese dialect of the Lombard language shows 9 vowel qualities, which can be either long or short phonemically, without any difference in quality. The following 18 phonemes all occur in stressed environments: /i/ /iː/ /y/ /yː/ /e/ /eː/ /ø/ /øː/ /ɛ/ /ɛː/ /a/ /aː/ /ɔ/ /ɔː/ /o/ /oː/ /u/ /uː/.

In unstressed position, only the following vowels occur: /i/ /e/ /ø/ /ɛ/ /a/ /u/

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