Bustocco and Legnanese dialects
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Bustocco and Legnanese (natively Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang".) are two dialects of Western Lombard, spoken respectively in the cities of Busto Arsizio (Province of Varese) and Legnano (Province of Milan), Lombardy.
Although there is little evidence of Ligurian settlements in the area,[1] they are widely thought to have been characterised by the Ligurian substratum.[2] While Legnanese is closer to the Milanese dialect,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Bustocco is especially considered very similar to the modern Ligurian language,[3] for example for the frequent unstressed Template:IPAblink at the end of masculine nouns and other words is more frequent (e.g. Bustocco Script error: No such module "Lang". "cat", Script error: No such module "Lang". "dry", Script error: No such module "Lang". "hot", Script error: No such module "Lang". "glass", Script error: No such module "Lang". "when" = Legnanese Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".), as well as the elimination of some intervocalic consonants (e.g. Bustocco Script error: No such module "Lang". "to work" = Legnanese Script error: No such module "Lang".). In both dialects stressed Script error: No such module "IPA". sounds like a mix between a and o.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A comic theatrical group called I Legnanesi uses Legnanese (with simplified grammar and lexicon heavily based on Italian) in its shows.[4]
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