Lorrain | |
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Gaumais | |
Region | Northeastern France, Belgium |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | lorr1242 [1] |
Lorrain, at the east among other oïl languages |
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Lorrain is a dialect (often referred to as patois) spoken by a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl.
It is classified as a regional language of France and has the recognised status of a regional language of Wallonia, where it is known as Gaumais. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, [West Central German]] language spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.
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External links[edit]
- http://www.travelphrases.info/languages/lorrain.htm
- (in French) Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du comté du Ban de la Roche, Jeremias Jacob Oberlin, 1775
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- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lorraine". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.