Gaumais

E506576

Gaumais is a regional Romance dialect spoken in the Gaume area of southern Belgium, closely related to other Lorrain varieties.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gaumais canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance dialect
regional language variety
closelyRelatedTo Lorrain NERFINISHED
country Belgium
distinctFrom Luxembourgish NERFINISHED
Standard French NERFINISHED
Walloon NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus severely endangered
geographicProximityTo French Lorraine NERFINISHED
Grand Est region of France NERFINISHED
Luxembourg NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Gaumais lorrain NERFINISHED
Gaume dialect NERFINISHED
Lorrain gaumais NERFINISHED
hasCulturalAssociation Gaume identity
local folklore of Gaume
hasLanguageCode ISO 639-3: xga
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction between masculine and feminine nouns
verb conjugations distinct from Standard French
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant system similar to other Oïl dialects
nasal vowels similar to French
hasSyntacticFeature word order broadly similar to French
historicalRegion Lorraine linguistic area NERFINISHED
influencedBy French
Luxembourgish NERFINISHED
Walloon NERFINISHED
intergenerationalTransmission declining
isNot official language of Belgium
languageFamily Romance languages
languageStatus minority language
partOf Lorrain dialect continuum
recognizedAs regional language in Wallonia
region southern Belgium NERFINISHED
revitalizationEffort local associations promoting use
local cultural events in Gaumais
publication of texts in Gaumais
spokenIn Belgium NERFINISHED
Gaume NERFINISHED
Wallonia NERFINISHED
subfamily Oïl languages NERFINISHED
usedBy inhabitants of Gaume
usedIn folk songs
local literature
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Lorrain hasDialects Gaumais
Lorrain language hasDialect Gaumais
Lorrain Romance hasDialect Gaumais