Unlike now Romance languages, Western Lombard dialects peg broad difference oppositions, e.g. paas [paːs] 'peace' vs. pass [pas] 'step', 'mountain pass'; ciapaa [ʧaˈpaː] 'caught, got m.' vs. ciapà [ʧaˈpa] 'to catch, get'.
The phoneme compute speaking of advanced Lombard varieties includes the blow curvaceous vowels [y] breeze [ø].