# Lombard/Phonology of the Milanese dialect in the New Lombard Orthography

| Grapheme | Phonology | Examples | Translation into English |
| a | /a/ | articioch | artichoke |
| b | /b/ /p/ at the end of the word | basell goeub | step hunchbacked |
| c | /t͡ʃ/ before "e" or "i" or at the end of the word after consonant /k/ before "a", "o", "oeu", "u" or any consonant | ciciarada can | chat dog |
| ch | /k/ before e, i or at the end of the word | chichera | coffee cup |
| cc | /t͡ʃ/ at the end of the word rarely in the middle of the word for reasons of derivation | tucc muccià (derived from mucc) | all accumulate |
| d | /d/ /t/ at the end of the word /ː/ at the end of past participles...or... /i/ at the end of past pasrticiples in some dialectal variant outside Milan | dent mond mangiad | tooth world ate |
| e | /e/ /ɛ/ Ø for feminine plurals -er is not pronounced at the end of the word for verbs in the infinitive of the third conjugation | temp insema montagne vesser | time together mountains to be |
| f | /f/ | fioeul | son |
| g | /d͡ʒ/ before "e" or "i" /ɡ/ before "a", "o", "oeu", "u" or any consonant | gesa magon | church dejection |
| gh | /ɡ/ before e or "i" /k/ at the end of the word | ghell | cent |
| gg | /d͡ʒ/ at the end of the word; rarely in the middle of the word for reasons of derivation | oeugg veggia (derivato da vegg) | eye old (feminine) |
| gn | /ɲ/ | tegnì | to keep, to hold |
| h | ∅ (attention: it is used at the beginning of all forms of the verb “havé”) | gh'hoo | have |
| i | /i/ /j/ after consonant, before vowel ∅ between "sc", "sg", "s'c", "s'g", "g", "c" and vowel /:/ at the end of plurals that end with "l" in the singular after "oeu" | intregh aria ciamà fioeui | entire, whole air to call, to ask sons |
| j | /ʎ/ between "i" and "a", not always between "e" e "a" /j/ in the other cases | famija tajà | family to cut |
| l | /l/ ∅ at the end of the word after oeu | lassà pedrioeul | to leave,to let funnel |
| ll | /ll/ in the middle of the word /l/ even at the end of the word (the double "l" is written at the end of the word when the accent is on the last syllable and the vowel that precedes is short) | balla basell | ball step |
| m | /m/ before bound consonant, nasalization of the preceding vowel | mur comprà | wall to buy |
| n | /n/ At the end of the word or before bound consonant, nasalization of the preceding vowel (can [kãː])) (except for the pronominal particle "en" in the form of a suffix and after "e") /ŋ/ before the velar consonants /k/ e /ɡ/ | nivola mont parlamen conca | cloud mount to tell me about it hollow |
| nn | /n/ - at the end of the word rarely in the middle of the word for reasons of derivation | dann anniversari (derived from "ann") | damage anniversary |
| o | /ɔ/ /u/, /o/ | comod tosa | comfortable girl |
| oeu | /ø/ | poeu | then |
| p | /p/ | pas | peace |
| q | /k/ before u + vowel | quatà | to cover |
| r | /r/ (/ː/ sometimes at the end of the word after "e" (senter [senˈteː]) -er is not pronounced at the end of the word for the verbs of the third conjugation in the infinitive form | ceregh senter vesser | cleric path to be |
| rr | /r/ - short preceeding vowel | carr (vs. car) | wagon |
| s | /s/ at the beginnig of the world /z/ intravocalic or at the end of the word | setàss nas | to sit nose |
| sh | /ʃ/ | marshalles | Marshallese |
| ss | /s/ | pess | fish |
| sc | /t͡ʃ/ - before e, i | scernì | to choose |
| s'c | /ʃt͡ʃ/ | mes'cià | to mix |
| sg | /d͡ʒ/ before e or i often and in any case always at the beginning of the word /ʒ/ before e or i rarely in the middle of the world /d͡ʒ/ o /ʒ/ depending on the word at the end of the word (more often /ʒ/) | sgiornada resgiora lesg / lavesg | daytime landlady legge / small puddle |
| s'g | /ʃd͡ʒ/ | s'giafon | slap |
| t | /t/ | tollin | crown cork |
| u | /y/ /w/ dopo <q> | cuna aqua | crib water |
| v | /v/ ∅ intravocalic between "a" and "o", "o" and "a", "o" and "e" or "u" and "i" | vun tavol Mantova ruvina | one table Mantova ruin |
| z | /s/ or /z/ depending on the word at the beginning of the word or after consonant /z/ intravocalic or at the end of the word | zuca mez ghez | pumpkin means, half, middle green lizard |
| zz | /s/ | mazzà | to kill |