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Savoyard
savoyard
Native to	France
Region	Savoy
Native speakers	(35,000 cited 1989) [1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Romance Franco-Provencal Savoyard
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Franco-Provencal protected by statute in Italy [2]
Regulated by	Institut de la langue savoyarde
Language codes
ISO 639-3	?
Glottolog	savo1253

Savoyard is a Franco-Provencal dialect of the Gallo-Romance family. It is spoken in some territories of the historical Duchy of Savoy , nowadays a geographic area spanning Savoie and Haute-Savoie , France and the Canton of Geneva , Switzerland . It has around 35,000 speakers today.

Some words [ edit ]

Several subdialects of Savoyard exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. This includes many words that have to do with the weather: bacan (French: temps mauvais ); coussie (French: tempete ); roye (French: averse ); ni[v]ole (French: nuage ); ...and, the environment: clapia, perrier (French: eboulis ); egra (French: sorte d'escalier de pierre ); balme (French: grotte ); tova (French: tourbiere ); and lanche (French: champ en pente ).

Linguistic studies [ edit ]

Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at the Centre de dialectologie of the Stendhal University , Grenoble , currently under the direction of Michel Contini .

See also [ edit ]

• Languages of France

References [ edit ]

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