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'''Milanese''' (endonym in traditional orthography {{lang|lmo-IT|Milanes}}, {{lang|lmo-IT|Meneghin}}) is the central variety of the [[Western Lombard dialect|Western dialect]] of the [[Lombard language]] spoken in [[Milan]], the rest of its [[Metropolitan City of Milan|metropolitan city]], and the northernmost part of the [[province of Pavia]].<ref name=region/> Milanese, due to the importance of Milan, the largest city in Lombardy, is often considered one of the most prestigious Lombard variants and the most prestigious one in the Western Lombard area.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

In Italian-language contexts, Milanese is often (like most things[[indigenous languages|indigenous]] [[Romance languages|Romance]] varieties spoken in Italy other than standard Italian) is often called a ''dialetto'' "[[dialect]]". This can be misunderstood to mean a variety of Italianthe [[Tuscan dialect|Tuscan]]-derived national language, which it is not. HoweverLombard in general, linguisticallyincluding Milanese, is a [[sister language]] of Tuscan, thus also of Italian, rather than a derivative. [[Linguistic typology|Typologically]], Lombard is a [[Western Romance languages|Western Romance language]], and is more closely relatedresembles toother [[FrenchGallo-Italic language|Frenchlanguages]] in [[Northern Italy]] (e.g. [[Piedmontese]], [[RomanshLigurian language|RomanshLigurian]], [[OccitanEmilian languagedialects|OccitanEmilian]], and[[Romagnol]]) toas otherwell as others further afield, including [[Gallo-ItalicOccitan languageslanguage|Occitan]] thanand it[[Romansh is to standard Italianlanguage|Romansh]].