Lorrain Romance

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Lorrain Romance is a regional Romance language variety spoken in parts of Lorraine in northeastern France, distinct from both standard French and neighboring dialects like Alsatian and Lorraine Franconian.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lorrain Romance canonical 1

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oïl language
Romance language
regional language
contactWith Alsatian
French
surface form: French language

German dialects
Rhenish Franconian
surface form: Lorraine Franconian
developedFrom Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Gallo-Romance

Vulgar Latin
distinctFrom Alsatian
French
surface form: French language

Rhenish Franconian
surface form: Lorraine Franconian
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
groupedUnder frp or other Oïl macrocodes in some classifications
hasAlternativeName Lorrain
Lorrain dialect
Romanche lorrain
hasConsonantFeature palatalization patterns typical of Oïl languages
hasDialect Argonnais
Gaumais
Messin
Verdunois
Vosgien
hasISOStatus no individual ISO 639-3 code
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Alsatian
German
Rhenish Franconian
surface form: Lorraine Franconian
hasMorphologicalFeature use of partitive articles similar to other Oïl languages
hasPhonologicalFeature retention of Latin /k/ before front vowels in some varieties
hasSociolinguisticFeature limited intergenerational transmission
mainly spoken by older generations
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order
hasVowelFeature nasal vowels similar to French but with regional realizations
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
historicalRegion Duchy of Lorraine
languageFamily Gallo-Romance languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Oïl languages
Romance languages
languageShiftTo French
surface form: French language
recognizedAs regional language of France
region Grand Est
spokenIn France
Lorraine
northeastern France
subgroupOf Gallo-Romance languages
Oïl languages
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition in Lorraine
regional literature

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lorraine languageTradition Lorrain Romance