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In Italian-speaking contexts, Orobic is often generically called a "dialect". This is often incorrectly understood as to mean a dialect of Italian, which actually is not the case. Western Lombard and Italian are different languages and are not mutually intelligible. Western Lombard, more than many other languages spoken in Italy, have many varieties, because of the mountain geography and the politic history of divisions.

Orobic belongs to the Romance language family related to French, Romansh, Italian, etc.

Today, Orobic does not have any official status either in Lombardy or anywhere else: the only official language in Lombardy is Italian.

Various dictionaries, a few grammars, extensive literature and a recent translation of the Gospels are available.

The main variants of Orobic are:

• Milanes
• Büstocu-Legnanés
• Brianzöö
• Cumasch
• Valassinés
• Canzés
• Cantürin
• Laghéé
• Lechês
• Ossolano
• Ticines
• Varesino-Bosino
• Chiavennasco
• Valtellinese
• Nuaresat
• Lodigiano
• Pavese