Franco-Provençal
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Franco-Provençal, also known as Francoprovençal, Arpitan or Patois, is a Gallo-Romance language that originated and is spoken in eastern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy; since the
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Title page of a Franco-Provençal dictionary from Saint-Étienne, France (1896): "The Key to the Gaga Dialect"
Conference hall at the 37th Fête internationale de l'arpitan, Saint-Etienne (France), 2016
Bilingual road sign (French-Valdôtain) in Pollein, Aosta Valley, 2025.
Langues d'oïl
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The langues d'oïl are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest relatives historically spoken in the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands. They be
Franco-Provençal
…Italy has survived too. Franco-Provençal has several distinct dialects and is separate from but closely related to neighbouring Romance dialects (the langues d'oïl and the langues d'oc, in France, as well as Rhaeto-Romance in Switzerland and Italy). Even with all its distinct dialects counted together, the number…
The Oïl languages have literary traditions, as for example seen in this 19th-century collection of Jèrriais short stories
Bilingual street sign for market square in French and Walloon
Signage in Gallo in the metro of Rennes