Bustocco and Legnanese dialects
Bustocco and Legnanese are two dialects of Western Lombard, spoken respectively in the cities of Busto Arsizio and Legnano, Lombardy.
Although there is little evidence of Ligurian settlements in the area, they are widely thought to have been characterised by the Ligurian substratum. While Legnanese is closer to the Milanese dialect, Bustocco is especially considered very similar to the modern Ligurian language, for example for the frequent unstressed at the end of masculine nouns and other words is more frequent, as well as the elimination of some intervocalic consonants. In both dialects stressed sounds like a mix between a and o.
A comic theatrical group called I Legnanesi uses Legnanese in its shows.
