Franco-Provençal

Franco-Provençal
Franco-Provençal
patouès, gaga, arpetan
Native to	Italy, France, Switzerland
Region	Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Foggia, Franche-Comté, Savoie, Bresse, Bugey, Dombes, Beaujolais, Dauphiné, Lyonnais, Forez, Romandie
Native speakers	227,000 (2013)e18; 150,000 in France, 70,000 in Italy,; 7,000 in Switzerland
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Franco-Provençal; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Vaudois Jurassien Lyonnais Savoyard Valdôtain Dauphinois Faetar and Cellese
Writing system	Latin
Recognised minority language in	France Italy Aosta Valley (protected by statute); Switzerland
Language codes
ISO 639-3	frp
Linguasphere	51-AAA-j
	Map of the Franco-Provençal language area: Dark blue: protected.; Medium blue: general regions.; Light blue: historical transition zone.;
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Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois, Gaga, Savoyard or Arpitan)^[1] is a dialect group within Gallo-Romance originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.

Franco-Provençal is also spoken in rural areas of French-speaking Switzerland.

In France, it is one of the three Gallo-Romance language families of the country (together with the langues d'oïl and the langues d'oc), and it is officially recognized as a regional language of France, but its use in the country is not widespread. Still, organizations are trying to keep it alive through cultural events, education, research, and publishing.

Franco-Provençal Media

Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Title page of a Franco-Provençal dictionary from Saint-Étienne, France (1896): "The Key to the Gaga Dialect".
Language area map with standard place names and modern political divisions.
Conference hall at the 37th Fête internationale de l'arpitan, Saint-Etienne (France), 2016.
Franco-Provençal language region map showing dialects and groups (revision 1)
Bilingual road sign (French-Valdôtain) in Introd, Aosta Valley.
Road sign for Charvex (La Balme de Thuy), Haute-Savoie, France after a name change in the 1990s to a historical Savoyard spelling. (Former village name: Charvet.)
Text of a carol about the appearance of a comet in 1682 by Jean Chapelon.
Cé qu'è l'ainô musical score showing verses 1, 2, 4, & 68.
Amélie Gex (1835-1883)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Arpitan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
↑ Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche, Italian parliament
↑ "f" (PDF). The Linguasphere Register. p. 165. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

Other websites

This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Franco-Provençal edition.

Arpitan Cultural Alliance, International Federation
Francoprovencal.org Le site du francoprovençal
Centre d'Études Francoprovençales of Saint-Nicolas, Aosta Valley

[Arpitan-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Arpitan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

[parl-2] Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche, Italian parliament

[3] "f" (PDF). The Linguasphere Register. p. 165. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

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