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Also known as Cimbrian language

endangered Germanic language of Italy

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

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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
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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.