Geographic Distribution
Eastern Lombard is primarily spoken in eastern Lombardy (Northern Italy), in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, in northern region of the province of Mantua and in the area around Crema. The varieties spoken in these regions are generally mutually intelligible for speakers of neighboring areas but this is not always true for distant peripheral areas. For instance, an inhabitant of the alpine valleys of Bergamo can hardly be understood by a rural inhabitant of the plains of Mantua. Differences include lexical, grammatical and phonetic aspects.
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