Auvergnat
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' (; ) or ' (endonym: ) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Auvergnat
- Language.states
- France
- Language.map
- Auvergnat (occitan).png
- Language.region
- Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Allier, Cantal, Communities in Limousin
- Language.speakers
- 80,000
- Language.date
- 2004
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic
- Language.fam3
- Latino-Faliscan
- Language.fam4
- Latin
- Language.fam5
- Romance
- Language.fam6
- Italo-Western
- Language.fam7
- Western Romance
- Language.fam8
- Gallo-Romance
- Language.fam9
- Occitano-Romance
- Language.fam10
- Occitan
- Language.iso3
- auv
- Language.iso3comment
- (retired); subsumed in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 80000
- linguistic typology
- syllabic language
- Commons category
- Auvergnat (occitan dialect)
- dialect of
- North Occitan
- P10369
- Kerala
- native label
- Auvernhat
- topic's main category
- Category:Auvergnese Occitan
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Classification
- History
- Geographical distribution
- A more precise view on Auvergnat boundaries
- Language boundaries
- Dialect boundaries
- Definition boundaries
- Internal variation
- Subdialects
- Linguistic vitality and usage
- Authors
- Poets
- Songwriters
- See also
- References
' (; ) or ' (endonym: ) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne.
Currently, research shows that there is not really a true Auvergnat dialect but rather a vast northern Occitan linguistic area. The word "Auvergnat" is above all a local historiographical creation. According to linguist Jean Roux, "It is by simplification that we use this term, because in no case Auvergnat can be considered as an autonomous linguistic entity".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Auvergnat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.