TICINESE

'Ticinese' ('''ticines''', '''ticinées''') is a comprehensive denomination for the varieties of Western Lombard language spoken in Canton Ticino (Tessin).
The ''Ticinese koiné'' (Italian: ''koinè ticinese'') is the Western Lombard koiné used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the ''koinè'' itself, as e.g. Leventinese, etc.) when communicating with speakers of other Western Lombard dialects of Ticino, the Grisons or Italian Lombardy.

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Some video and audio documents (interviews, recordings, etc. of writers from Ticino) in Ticinese varieties can be found at the following site: RTSI: Acquarelli popolari (please notice that the metalanguage of this site is Italian, and that some of the interviews are in Italian rather than in Ticinese Lombard).

Bibliography

★ Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia, ''LSI – Lessico dialettale della Svizzera italiana'', Bellinzona 2004.

★ Comrie, Bernard, Matthews, Stephen and Polinsky, Maria: ''The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World. Rev. ed.'', New York 2003.

★ Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.): ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Vol. 1'', 2000.

★ Lurà, Franco: ''Il dialetto del Mendrisiotto'', Mendrisio–Chiasso 1987.

★ Lurati, Ottavio: ''Dialetto e italiano regionale nella Svizzera italiana'', Lugano 1976.

★ Petrini, Dario: ''La koinè ticinese'' (''Romanica Helvetica'' vol. 105), Bern 1988.
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★ VSI – Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana'', Lugano / Bellinzona 1952–.