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Croissant (linguistic)

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Croissant (linguistic)

The Croissant (Occitan: lo Creissent; French: le Croissant) is a crescent-shaped linguistic zone, located in central France, where people traditionally speak varieties of the Lemosin and Auvernhat dialects with transition features toward French;

The first author who coined the name Croissant was linguist Jules Ronjat, in his 1913 PhD thesis. A prominent study about the Crescent is Guylaine Brun-Trigaud's PhD Thesis: Le Croissant: le concept et le mot (1990).

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