Key facts
- Native to
- Italy
- Native speakers
- 1,111 (2021)
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic Upper German Bavarian Southern Cimbrian
- Recognised minority language in
- Italy, Trentino
- Iso 639 3
- cim
- Glottolog
- cimb1238
- Elp
- Cimbrian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Upper German
- Country
- Italy
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- Commons category
- Cimbrian language
- topic's main category
- Category:Cimbrian language
- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Roana
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 400
- P10369
- Beawar
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Encyclopedic overview
Historical (yellow) and current (orange) distribution of the Cimbrian dialects
Cimbrian (Cimbrian: zimbar, [ˈt͡simbɐr]; German: Zimbrisch; Italian: cimbro) is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as Zimbern in German.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cimbrian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.