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Frainc-Comtou

Frainc-Comtou is a Romance language of the langues d'oïl language family spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France and in the Canton of Jura and Bernese Jura in Switzerland.

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Frainc-Comtou
Native toFrance, Switzerland
RegionFranche-Comté, Canton of Jura, Bernese Jura
Native speakers
(undated figure of c. 4,000)
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologfran1270
Linguasphere& 51-AAA-hc 51-AAA-ja & 51-AAA-hc
Situation of Frainc-Comtou among the Oïl languages.

Frainc-Comtou (French: franc-comtois) is a Romance language of the langues d'oïl language family spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France and in the Canton of Jura and Bernese Jura in Switzerland.

History

Jean Priorat's Li abrejance de l'ordre de chevalerie is written in Old French with Frainc-Comtou features.2

Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Dalby, David (1999/2000). The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities. (Vol. 2). Hebron, Wales, UK: Linguasphere Press. ISBN 0-9532919-2-8.
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Glottolog 4.8 - Shifted Western Romance". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  2. Allmand, Christopher (2011). The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. p. 162..
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