Cremunés dialect

Cremonese (Cremunés) is a dialect of the Western Lombard dialect group spoken in the city and province of Cremona in Lombardy, Italy, with the exception of Crema and the area of Soresina, where an Eastern Lombard dialect is spoken,[2] and the area of Casalmaggiore, where a form of Emilian[3] closely related to Parmigiano[citation needed] is spoken.

[4] This is a reflex of the Proto-Romance rule of lengthening open syllables, which in Cremonese, has led to phonemic vowel length also being contrastive in penultimate-stressed words, as well as in monosyllabic words.

[citation needed] The publication of the Dizionario del dialetto cremonese in 1976 by the Comitato promotore di studi e ricerche di dialettologia, storia e folklore cremonese outlined an orthography for Cremonese.

The orthography is a follows: Vowel length is represented by doubling the vowel letter, with the acute or grave diacritic removed for the second and letters.

The umlaut diacritic however is retained across both letters, thus <öö> for /øː/ and <üü> for /yː/.