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Piedmontese (also known as Piemontèis, and Piemontese in Italian) is spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is part of the western group of Romance languages, like French, Provençal and Catalan, and it is geographically and linguistically close to the northern Italian regional languages – Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian and Venetian – that, according to the Ethnologue classification, constitute the group of Gallo-Italic languages, also known as Cisalpine. Linguists worldwide (e. g. Einar Haugen, Hans Göbl, Helmut Lüdtke, George Bossong, Klaus Bochmann, Karl Gebhardt, Guiu Sobiela Caanitz, Gianrenzo P. Clivio) acknowledge Piedmontese as an independent language, though in Italy it is often still considered an Italian dialect. Today it is not an official language. Piedmontese was the first language of the emigrants who left Piedmont, in the period 1850-1950, for countries like France, Argentina and Uruguay.

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The first documents in the Piedmontese language were written in the 12th century, the sermones subalpini, when it was extremely close to Occitan. The literary Piedmontese developed in the 17th and 18th centuries. It did not earn literary esteem comparable to that of French and Italian, other languages used in Piedmont. Nevertheless, literature in Piedmontese has never ceased to be produced: it includes poetry, theatre pieces, novels and scientific work.

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@msmaggie38 w/n taurus (Euro breeds) sum genetic anomolies basically override those statins, ie Piedmontese. Calpains left to do their job.
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RT @vintrospective: Interesting: Piedmontese reds & food pairing in this interview w stefano gagliardo via wines.com http://tinyurl.com/ ...
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