Originally Posted by
LukeT
First, take into consideration that Lingurian by some linguists is NOT classified as Gallo italic/Celtic Italic, indeed it's very very different from Emilian-Lombard-Rumagnol-Piedmontese.
Second, the modern day region of Lombardy was invented in the 70s, the historical region of Lombardy includes also all of Emilia as far as Bologna, and the province of Novara in the modernday region of Piedmont. Indeed the "emilian language" is spoken major cities/provinces within the modernday region of lombardy like Pavia and Mantua. So the modernday region of Emilia Romagna is a social construct invented in the 70s, just as Trentino, where the western part is Lombard, the eastern Venetian, and the northern German.
With regards to Lombard-Emilian (and also Piedmontese) there's absolutely any doubt that the closest language in terms of phonetics, vocabularies,...is French. That is due to sounds/letters like œ, ô, ü, û, ë, ä, æ, such as fœra/fôra (out), dü/dû (two), brœd/brôt (broth), incœ (today), Dûtœr/Dutôr (Doctor), sœl/sôl (sun), përma (parma), säcchia (Secchia river), pæss (fish). And also the word endings usually end with consonants, and have similar endings with french such as Spegazióun (Explanation), Allûvióun/Inûndazióun (flood), Dûróun (cherries), Cantóun (angle),...
And then there's a letter that is only shared between the "emilian language" , istro rumanian and scandinavian languages: the letter å, such as såppa (soup), dåppi (double), ståpid (stupid), Bulåggna (bologna),...
And with the case of the "emilian language" all of the verbs end in -er, like Parlêr (to speak), Fartûtler (to rumble), Stûrler (to bump), Fêr (to do),...
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