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Preferred term

lngLangobardic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Lombardic or Langobardic is the extinct language of the Lombards (Langobardi), the Germanic speaking people who settled in Italy in the 6th century. The language declined rapidly already in the 7th century as the invaders quickly adopted the Latin vernacular spoken by the local Roman population. E.g. already the Edict of Rothari from 643 is written almost exclusively in Vulgar Latin although it only covers Lombardic subjects and the laws were compiled by the Lombards themselves. Lombardic may have been in scattered use until as late as ca. AD 1000. The language is only preserved fragmentarily, the main evidence being individual words quoted in Latin texts.

Entry terms

  • Lombardic language

ISO 639-3 code

  • lng

Notation

  • lng

In other languages

  • Langobardische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua longobarda

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma lombardo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lng

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