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Insubric language Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi ...
orthographies others than the classical Milanese one.


Comasca

Alternative orthography of the city of
Como Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has m ...
and suburbs, used by the academy ''Famiglia Comasca''. Overriding differences in pronunciation and grammar, the orthography differences with the
classical Milanese orthography The classical Milanese orthography is the orthography used for the Western Lombard language, in particular for the Milanese dialect, by the major poets and writers of this literature, such as Carlo Porta, Carlo Maria Maggi, Delio Tessa, etc. It ...
are: *sound is written ''ü'', not ''u'' *sound is written ''u'', not ''o'' *sound is written ''ö'', not ''oeu'' *long vowels are always written as double *there is a different use of accents (but not circumflex one) *''zz'' is often used *article ''i'' ("the", plural) is written ''j'' when followed by vowel


Lecchese

The most used alternative orthography in
Lecco Lecco (, , ; lmo, label= Lecchese, Lècch ) is a city of 48,131 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch is named ''Branch of Lecco'' / ''Ramo di Lecco'') ...
and suburbs is: (overriding differences in pronunciation and grammar) *sound is written ''ü'', not ''u'' *sound is written ''u'', not ''o'' *sound is written ''ö'', not ''oeu'' *long vowels are written with the
circumflex accent The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from la, circumflexus "bent around"a ...
*the other accents, on tonic syllables, are always used *final voiced consonants are written as voiceless (like they actually are in pronunciation), except ambiguities {{Western Lombard language Western Lombard language
Insubric Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), Lodi ...