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Key facts
- Native to
- France , Belgium
- Region
- Champagne-Ardenne , Île-de-France ( Seine-et-Marne ), Namur
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo - Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian? Arpitan – Oïl Oïl Francien and Frankish zones Champenois
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance Old French
- Dialects
- Eastern Western
- Iso 639 3
- –
- Glottolog
- cham1332
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- indigenous to
- Champagne
- writing system
- Latin script
- Commons category
- Champenois language
- topic's main category
- Category:Champenois language
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Encyclopedic overview
Champenois (lou champaignat) is a Romance language among the langues d'oïl spoken by a minority of people in Champagne and Île-de-France provinces in France, as well as in a handful of towns in southern Belgium (chiefly the municipality of Vresse-sur-Semois).
While it is classified as a regional language of France, it also has recognized status as a regional language in Wallonia, a region of Belgium. Champenois is considered an endangered language by the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Champenois” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.