Cremish orCremasque, (Cremish Lombard:cremàsch) is anEastern Lombard dialect spoken in theCremasque Territory of theProvince of Cremona, whereCremonese is spoken in the rest of the land except forSoresina and the aforementioned land.[2] The dialect is slowly dying, as younger people don't use it as much anymore.[3]
The Cremish dialect began thriving in literature in the 18th century.[5] A notable poet that wrote in the dialect was Federico Pesadori,[6] who wrote works such asA Crèma,Ai casòt d'ingürie, andL'ucarina.
^Grande illustrazione del Lombardo-Veneto, ossia Storia delle citta, dei borghi, comuni, castelli, ecc. fino ai tempi moderni per cura di letterati italiani (in Italian). presso Corona e Caimi. 1859. p. 723.
^Piastrella, Carlo.Crema Nel Settecento (in Italian). p. 15.
^Rivista italiana di letteratura dialettale (in Italian). 1931.
^Venetian is either grouped with the rest of the Italo-Dalmatian or the Gallo-Italic languages, depending on the linguist, but the major consensus among linguists is that in the dialectal landscape of northern Italy, Veneto dialects are clearly distinguished from Gallo-Italic dialects.
