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Milanese (Milanes, Milanées, Meneghin, Meneghìn) is the central variety of the Western Lombard language spoken in the city and province of Milan.
In Italian-language contexts, Milanese is often (like most non-standard Italian varieties spoken in Italy) called a "dialect" of Italian. However, as there is no generally accepted definitions of "language" and "dialect", an alternative view is that Milanese and Italian are distinct Romance languages and are not mutually intelligible.
Like all dialects of Western Lombard, Milanese is a Romance language, related to French, Romansh, and to other Gallo-Italian languages.
Various dictionaries, a few grammar books, an extensive literature and a recent translation of the Gospels are available in Milanese[citation needed].
Partly because of the unofficial status of Milanese, several different orthographic conventions have developed. The oldest still in use, and probably the most widely used, is the convention adopted by the Milanese writer Carlo Porta. Typical of this system is the trigraph oeu for the vowels [ø] and [œ]. See: Classical Milanese orthography.
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