Lorrain
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all the dialects of Oïl spoken in Lorraine; independent languages or dialects of French
Key facts
- Region
- Northeastern France , Belgium
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian (possibly) Oïl Lorrain
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance Old French
- Dialects
- Gaumais Welche
- Iso 639 3
- –
- Glottolog
- lorr1242
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Oïl
- Country
- France
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lorrain language
- has grammatical gender
- feminine
- writing system
- Latin script
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object
- indigenous to
- Belgian Lorraine
- different from
- Lorraine Franconian
- P10369
- Violetta Caldart
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Lorrain, also known as Lorrain roman, is a langue d'oïl spoken by a minority of people in the region of Lorraine in northeastern France, as well as in some parts of Alsace and Gaume in Belgium. It is often referred to as a patois.
It is a regional language of France. In Wallonia, it is known as Gaumais and enjoys official recognition as a regional language. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, West Central German languages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lorrain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.