Editing Lombard language (section)

== Literature ==
{{main|Western Lombard literature}}
Lacking a standard language, authors in the 13th and 14th language created [[Franco-Lombard]], a mixed language including [[Old French language|Old French]], for their literary works.
The Lombard variety with the oldest literary tradition (from the 13th century) is that of [[Milan]], but [[Milanese]], the native Lombard variety of the area, has now almost completely been superseded by Italian from the heavy influx of migrants from other parts of Italy (especially from [[Apulia]], [[Sicily]] and [[Campania]]) during the rapid industrialization after the [[Second World War]].

[[Ticinese dialect|Ticinese]] is a comprehensive denomination for the Lombard varieties that are spoken in Swiss canton [[Ticino]] (Tessin), and the ''Ticinese koiné'' is the Western Lombard [[koiné]] used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the ''koiné'' itself) when they communicate with speakers of other Lombard dialects of [[Ticino]], [[Grisons|Grigioni]] or Italian [[Lombardy]]. The koiné is similar to Milanese and the varieties of the neighbouring provinces on the Italian side of the border.

There is extant literature in other varieties of Lombard like ''La masséra da bé'', a theatrical work in early Eastern Lombard, written by Galeazzo dagli Orzi (1492–?) presumably in 1554.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w3L02qPzC9kC&pg=PA144 ''Produzione e circolazione del libro a Brescia tra Quattro e Cinquecento: atti della seconda Giornata di studi "Libri e lettori a Brescia tra Medioevo ed età moderna"''] Valentina Grohovaz (Brescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 4 marzo 2004. Published by "Vita e Pensiero" in 2006, {{ISBN|88-343-1332-1}}, {{ISBN|978-88-343-1332-9}} (Google Books).</ref>{{failed verification|date=September 2014}}