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.
Aosta Valley
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The Aosta Valley, officially the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, is a mountainous autonomous region of northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, to the west; by Valais, Sw
Franco-Provençal
…Savoyard, Lyonnais, Gaga in Saint-Étienne, etc.). Formerly spoken throughout the Duchy of Savoy, Franco-Provençal is nowadays spoken mainly in the Aosta Valley as a native language by all age ranges. All remaining areas of the Franco-Provençal language region show practice limited to higher age ranges, except…
The 13th-century Fénis Castle in the Aosta Valley
Remains of the Roman Theatre, Aosta
The Tour des Seigneurs de la Porte Saint-Ours in Aosta
Mont Blanc in Aosta Valley, the highest point in the European Union