Piemonteis: More writing styles

The writing style shown in the previous sections is the so-called Brandé, from the name of the group - that also included the piemontophone poets Nino Costa and Pinin Pacòt - that published a modern grammar and a normalized dictionary at the beginning of the twentieth century; this is the most used style in literary production and also online. There however are others, that differ for the representation of the sound of the vowels o, ò and u.

In the twentieth century an alternate writing style that was sometimes used included the symbol ô to represent the o (the Italian u), and thus an o to represent the Italian o. Even today you can often find the writing Piemônt, even if the correct writing in the classical ortography is Piemont.

Finally, in more recent times, a newer writing style was proposed, so to be easier to learn for Italian speakers. It uses o and u for the same sounds as in Italian, and the sign ü for the sound of the closed, French u; this style was self-defined as mincadì ("everyday"). Personally, however, I think that the effort to change the traditional writing style, adding the confusion due to the use of two different writing styles at the same time, is not worth the presumed advantage of simplifying the reading of the vowels (presumed, because Piemonteis vowels are different from Italian, from French and from English; if you try a new language, it's normal to have to learn something...).