The Cremonese dialect of the Lombard language has 9 vowel qualities, which can be either phonemically long or short, without any difference in quality.
The following 18 phonemes all occur in stressed environments: /i/ /iː/ /y/ /yː/ /e/ /eː/ /ø/ /øː/ /ɛ/ /ɛː/ /a/ /aː/ /ɔ/ /ɔː/ /o/ /oː/ /u/ /uː/.
Vowel length is contrastive in stressed syllables, for example /'veːder/ glass with a long /eː/ differs from /'veder/ to see, with a short /e/.[3] This is a reflex of the Proto-Romance rule of lengthening open syllables, which in Cremonese, has led to phonemic vowel length also being contrastive in penultimate-stressed words, as well as in monosyllabic words.[4]
In unstressed position, only the following 6 vowels occur: /i/ /e/ /ø/ /ɛ/ /a/ /u/.Шаблон:Cn
Orthography
The publication of the Dizionario del dialetto cremonese in 1976 by the Comitato promotore di studi e ricerche di dialettologia, storia e folklore cremonese outlined an orthography for Cremonese.
a as in Italian (andàa: to go, Italian: andare)
è for open /ɛ/ (pulèer: Italian: pollaio)
é for closed /e/ (fradél: Italian: fratello)
i as in Italian (finìi: Italian: finire)
ò for open /ɔ/ (bòon: Italian: buono)
ó for closed /o/ (fióol: Italian: ragazzo)
u as in Italian (pùl: Italian: pollo)
ö as in French "eu" and German "ö" (nisöön: Italian: nessuno)
ü as in French "u" and German "ü" (paüüra: Italian: paura)
Vowel length is represented by doubling the vowel letter, with the acute or grave diacritic removed for the second <e> and <o> letters. The umlaut diacritic however is retained across both letters, thus <öö> for /øː/ and <üü> for /yː/.
