in another dialect there is or a back vowel respectively. Semivowels Comparison with related languages Phonetically, it is evident, for example, the predominance of vowel or similar (written a), instead of unstressed (written e). In Canzés, instead of Milanese nasalization of vowel, there is a velar nasal (written n) with abbreviation of the vowel. There are no geminate consonants in words, excepting half-geminate affricate (written z), that never change to . The final consonants are always voiceless. Written v have a very weak sound, almost semivocalic. There are also vowel allophones as and , and (both written a) and more open (written ü, sometimes i when variant of ), in addition to basic Western Lombard vowels: (written a), (written é), (written è), (written i), (written ó), (written ò), (written ö) with (written ö, sometimes ü when variant of ), (written u) and normal (written ü). Vowels and are inverted (for example: cóo, head; cuut, whetstone) as to many others Brianzöö and Milanese varieties. Syllables closed by and based on vowel a, often change it with (written ò), that, like other rounded consonants also in other Western Lombard varieties, change to when unstressed. Letter s before consonant is usually aspirated. There are many phenomena of assimilation or adaptation, caused by meeting of two words, especially in crashes of consonants. In the word culzùn, trousers, the adesinential plural, the use of , not , the conservation of z and the mutation cal- > còl- > cul- can be seen. Literature In the little written literature, almost totally poetry, bloomed in the 1970s basing on Brianzöö and Milanese literatures (born in the 13th century), it is used a simple orthography, adherent to the pronunciation and based on Italian and Milanese ones, using diaeresis, letter j for semivocalic i, not applying the circumflex accent but the redoubling of long vowels, or the redoubling of consonant for short vowels. The wide oral literature is composed by proverbs, poems, legends, prayers, that have histories of several centuries. An important role of Canzés and other local languages is in toponyms, often derived from Celtic words, and traditional gentilics. Examples There are some examples of written and oral literature. Use There are variants also within the borough, according to the social class and the zone, for influence in the first case from Milanese and from common Brianzöö, in the second case from the neighbouring villages. It can be