Lorrain language
Lorrain | |
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gaumais | |
Region | NortheasternFrance,Belgium |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | lorr1242 |
Lorrain, at the east among otheroïllanguages |
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Lorrainis a language (often referred to aspatois) spoken by now a minority of people inLorraineinFrance,small parts ofAlsaceand inGaumein Belgium.[3]It is alangue d'oïl.
It is classified as aregional language of Franceand has the recognised status of a regional language ofWallonia,where it is known asGaumais.[2]It has been influenced byLorraine FranconianandLuxembourgish,West Central Germanlanguages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.[citation needed]
Features
[edit]Linguist Stephanie Russo noted the difference of a 'second'imperfectandpluperfecttense between Lorrain and Standard French.[4]It is derived from Latin grammar that no longer is used in modern French.
Variations
[edit]TheLinguasphere Observatorydistinguishes seven variants:
- Argonnais (Argonne,Woëvre,eastern FrenchArdennes,Meuse,Meurthe-et-Moselle)
- Longovician (Longwy,Longuyon,northern Meurthe-et-Moselle)
- Gaumais (arrondissement of Virton,cantons of MontmédyandStenayin Meuse and thecanton of Carignanin Ardennes)
- Messin (Metz,Metzgauand all of French-speakingMoselle)
- Nancéien (Nancy,southern Meurthe-et-Moselle)
- Spinalian (Épinal,centralVosges)
- Deodatian (Saint-Dié,Hautes-Vosges)
After 1870, members of theStanislas Academyin Nancy noted 132 variants of Lorrain from Thionville in the north to Rupt-sur-Moselle in the south, which means that main variants have sub-variants.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- http:// travelphrases.info/languages/lorrain.htm
- (in French)Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du comté du Ban de la Roche,Jeremias Jacob Oberlin, 1775
References
[edit]- ^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24)."Oil".Glottolog.Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-10-08.Retrieved2022-10-07.
- ^ab"Le gaumais".Commune deMeix-devant-Virtonen Gaume.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-03-20.Retrieved2022-10-07.
- ^Séguy, Jean (1973)."LES ATLAS LINGUISTIQUES DE LA FRANCE PAR RÉGIONS".Langue Française.18(18): 65–90.doi:10.3406/lfr.1973.5631.ISSN0023-8368.JSTOR41557628.
- ^Russo, Stephanie C. (May 2017).The imparfait lorrain in the context of grammaticalization(Thesis thesis).