Abstract Lombard is one of the 12–15 non-recognized regional languages spoken in Italy. This article focuses on the new speakers of Lombard, i. e. people who have learned or are learning Lombard as a second language. Through an open questionnaire the author has probed into various aspects concerning these new speakers’ competence and learning trajectories, situations and opportunities for using the language, motivations, aims, commitment, metalinguistic awareness and the difficulties encountered in acquiring the language. Issues of authenticity, legitimacy and especially of identity and political allegiances have also been looked at. After a brief outline of the Lombard language and the research on new speakers that has been carried out so far, the article presents the methodology employed, followed by an analysis of the answers provided, which show that new speakers are very different from native speakers in sociolinguistic terms. A discussion of the results and some conclusions close the article.

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伦巴底的新演说家

摘要伦巴底语是意大利使用的12–15种无法识别的区域性语言之一。本文重点介绍伦巴底的新演讲者，即 e。已经学习或正在学习伦巴底语作为第二语言的人。通过一份公开的调查表，作者探讨了与这些新演讲者的能力和学习轨迹，使用语言的情况和机会，动机，目标，承诺，元语言意识以及获得语言时遇到的困难有关的各个方面。还研究了真实性，合法性，尤其是身份和政治效忠问题。在简要介绍了伦巴底语言和迄今为止对新说话者的研究之后，本文介绍了所采用的方法，然后对提供的答案进行了分析，这表明，新的讲者与母语使用者在社会语言学上有很大的不同。对结果的讨论和一些结论结束了本文。