Eastern Lombard Language - Orthography

Orthography

Since Eastern Lombard is still principally an oral language, a commonly accepted orthography has not been established. While in recent years there has been an increasing production of texts (mainly light comedies and poem collections), each author continues to follow their own spelling rules. The most problematic and controversial issues seem to be the representation of intervocalic /s/ and /z/ (rendered by different authors with <-ss->, <-s-> or <-z->) and final /tʃ/ vs. /k/ (rendered with <-cc>, <-c> or <-ch>).

This article follows the rules of the Italian orthography, with the following exceptions.