Laurbereth
Hello, I’m Laurbereth, one of the admins here on the Lombard edition of Wiktionary. I chose this name because I wanted something that sounded like Quenya or Sindarin.
A few words
modifegaFrom my articles on Wikipedia and the dictionary entries I upload on here, you’ll notice that I primarily write in classical Milanese, regularized and stripped of Italianisms. Modern Milanese is still a beautiful language, but it has lost many unique features and characteristics that – paradoxically – have made the dialect drift away from other Lombard varieties and become more like Italian. This is something I don’t particularly like. It’s clear that the language is moving towards an almost total convergence with Italian, but I believe that Lombard has its own unique identity that should be preserved.
One way Milanese has changed is in pronunciation. Today, ‹c› is used much more frequently than it used to be, where ‹z› was previously preferred, especially in the speech of more educated or upper-class Milanese. Another change lies in the tendency to pronounce those words that in Latin had a ‹ct› sound – for example: nox, noctis and lectus, lecti – with a ‹t› (not, let), whereas in the past ‹cc› (nocc, lecc) was used. There was also an interesting pattern in paroxytone words, where the final vowel would open to [ɛ] (subit → subet; inutil → inutel; impossibil → impossibel) or to [ɔ] depending on the case. These phenomena are still present in the more conservative dialects and I make an effort to keep them in mind when I write, or at least try to respect them.
Additionally, I like to use words from all over Lombardy, even from dialects beyond urban or rural Milanese. Often, I say and write ‘fomna’ and ‘s’cet’ even though these words are more Bergamasque than Milanese. I believe this is a richness that our language has, and we shouldn’t let the differences in our dialects hold us back. Instead, it would be wonderful if these words could spread beyond their local dialects to become a shared heritage for all Lombard speakers.
Useful things
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Dictionaries
modifegaBergamasque
modifegaBrixian
modifegaCremasque
modifegaCremonese
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modifega- My page on lmowiki