Dialects Welche | Glottolog lorr1242 | |
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Region North eastern France, Belgium Language family Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Western
Gallo-Romance
Oïl
Lorrain | ||
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, Germanic languages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.
References
Lorrain language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA