Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)

E20062

Gallo-Romance language Romance language endangered language minority language

Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) is a Romance language historically spoken in parts of France, Switzerland, and Italy, distinct from both French and Occitan and now considered endangered.

Aliases (9)

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Gallo-Romance language → Romance language → endangered language → minority language →
alternativeName	Arpitan → Francoprovençal → Patois → Patouès →
closelyRelatedTo	French → Occitan →
developedFrom	Vulgar Latin →
distinctFrom	French → Occitan →
glottocode	fran1260 →
hasDialects	Cellese → Faetar → Fribourgeois → Lyonnais dialect → Savoyard → Valaisan → Valdôtain →
hasLanguageAcademy	Conseil de la langue francoprovençale →
hasMorphologicalFeature	use of partitive article similar to French →
hasPhonologicalFeature	retention of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels in many dialects →
hasRevitalizationEfforts	community associations in France, Switzerland, and Italy →
hasSociolinguisticFeature	strong influence from French in modern usage →
ISO639-2Code	frp →
ISO639-3Code	frp →
languageFamily	Indo-European languages → Italic languages → Romance languages →
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn	Aosta Valley → Fribourg (canton) → Piedmont → Valais (canton) →
region	Arpitania →
spokenIn	Aosta Valley → Bresse → France → Fribourg (canton) → Italy → Lyonnais → Piedmont → Romandy → Savoy → Switzerland → Valais (canton) →
status	endangered →
subfamily	Gallo-Romance →
UNESCOStatus	definitely endangered →
usedIn	regional music and songs → traditional oral literature →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (23)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Eastern France ("Franco-Provençal") → Entrèves ("Valdôtain (Franco‑Provençal dialect)") → Franche-Comté ("Franco-Provençal") → Piedmont ("Franco-Provençal") →	regionalLanguage
Arpitan ("Franco-Provençal") → Arpitan ("Francoprovençal") → Franco-Provençal ("Francoprovençal") →	alternativeName
Arpitan ("Lyonnais Arpitan") → Arpitan ("Fribourgeois Arpitan") → Arpitan ("Aostan Arpitan") →	hasDialect
Apulia ("Franco-Provençal (Faetar)") → Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ("Franco-Provençal") →	hasRegionalLanguage
Bourbonnais ("Franco-Provençal") → Vivarais ("Franco-Provençal") →	historicalLanguage
Franco-Provençal ("Lyonnais dialect") →	hasDialects
Romandy →	hasMinorityLanguage
Gallo-Romance languages ("Franco-Provençal language") →	hasPart
Gaulish ("Franco-Provençal") →	influenced
Graian Alps ("Franco-Provençal") →	languageRegion
Morzine ("Franco-Provençal") →	localDialect
Jean-Antoine Carrel ("Franco-Provençal") →	nativeLanguage
Vivaro-Alpine ("Franco-Provençal") →	neighboringLanguage
Aosta Valley ("Franco-Provençal") →	recognizedRegionalLanguage