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> Let's see some Lombard paradigms, at least. Perhaps some example > texts! > > Padraic A sample text... perhaps related to languages? I think I've got what you're looking for. It's a poem by the greatest Lombard poet ever, Carlo Porta (a poet lived in Milan at the beginning of the xix century): I paròll d'on lenguagg. I paròll d'on lenguagg, car sur Gorell, hin ona tavolòzza de color, che pònn fa el quader brutt, e el pònn fa bell segond la maestria del pittor. Senza idej, senza gust, senza on cervell che regola i paròll in del descor, tutt i lenguagg del mond hin come quell che parla on sò umilissim servitor: e sti idej, sto bon gust già el savarà che nò hin privativa di paes, ma di coo che gh'han flemma de studià: tant l'è vera che in bocca de Usciuria el bellissem lenguagg di Sienes l'è el lenguagg pù cojon che mai ghe sia. -- rough translation -- The words of a language. The words of a language, dear mister Gorelli, are like a painter's palette, the colours can make the painting beautiful or ugly according to the skills of the painter. Without ideas, without taste, without a brain ruling words in the act of speaking, every lanugage of this world is like the one spoken by one of your humblest servant: And you probably already know that these ideas, this good taste are not a private right of single nations, but belong to those heads who long for studing: This is true as the fact that in your mouth, my lord, the very beautiful language of Siena becomes the most terrible lanugage one can hear. --- Notes to pronounce Lombard: everything as in Italian, but: <o> reads /u/ <ò> reads /O/ <u> reads /y/ <oeu> reads /Y/ Double consonants are not geminates! They just stand after short vowels. Anyway many dialects have also lost the long-short distinction in most places, so... Final consonants are in most dialects devoiced. Luca