Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lmo
Lombard Language Lumbaart
Lombard is an Indo-European language spoken by about 3.9 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Lombard is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Lombard
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Northwestern Shifted Romance
- Gallo-Italian
- Piemontese-Lombard
- Lombard
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Lombard language
Lombard (Lumbaart) is spoken by about 3.9 million people, which makes it the 215th most spoken language in the world — just behind Gilaki (3.9 million) and ahead of Southern Balochi (3.8 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Piemontese-Lombard group within the Italic branch.
Where is Lombard spoken?
Lombard is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Italy (3.5 million) and Switzerland (363,283).
Share of the population that speaks Lombard: Italy 5.7% (3.5 million) and Switzerland 4.1% (363,283).
Lombard is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Lombard is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Piemontese, Emilian, Romagnol, French, Haitian, Morisyen and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lmo.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.