Which answer matches this clue: the Gallo-Italic language of Piedmont with roughly 700,000 speakers and a literary tradition?

• A Lombard
• B Piedmontese ✓
• C Ligurian
• D Emilian

Piedmontese has a rich literature dating to the 12th century and was the first language of the House of Savoy before the shift to Tuscan.