Did you know Francoprovençal is endangered?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Patois, Arpitan, Romand
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western Romance
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		frp
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Neuch-Telois Valaisan Faeto Vaudois Savoyard Celle San Vito Valle D'aosta Neuchatelais Dauphinois Lyonnais
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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
130,000
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: France, Italy, Switzerland

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Savoy; Ain; Rhone;Loire, France. Valais;Fribourg, Switzerland. Faeto; Celle San Vito, Italy

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
77,000
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
147,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
70,000 in France (1971 census). Population total all countries: 147,000.

PLACES: France; Switzerland; Italy;

PLACES: Italy

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Faeto and Celle di St.Vito, in the southern province of Apuilia. Outpost communities where Faetar is spoken are found at least in northern Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Perhaps the largest of these is in the Greater TorontoArea (hereafter Toronto), where some community members estimate there are >2,000 people from, or with ancestors from, Celle
and Faeto.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: The language examined here is Faetar, an endangered Francoprovenc¸al (FP) variety spoken by fewer than 1,000 people in two mountaintop villages in
southern Italy (Apulia): Faeto and Celle di St.Vito. The contact situation between Faetar and other varieties spoken in Apulia has existed for some 700 years, since a group of Francoprovenc¸al speakers moved from a region east of Lyon, France, and founded Faeto and Celle (Nagy 1996: Chapter 3).

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100,600
Native speakers worldwide

	3	2011	Lexical change and language contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada		366–382			Journal of Sociolinguistics	15			Naomi Nagy	Naomi Nagy. 2011. "Lexical Change and Language Contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada." In Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15: 366–382.								The language examined here is Faetar, an endangered Francoprovenc¸al (FP) variety spoken by fewer than 1,000 people in two mountaintop villages in southern Italy (Apulia): Faeto and Celle di St.Vito. The contact situation between Faetar and other varieties spoken in Apulia has existed for some 700 years, since a group of Francoprovenc¸al speakers moved from a region east of Lyon, France, and founded Faeto and Celle (Nagy 1996: Chapter 3).	Italy	Faeto and Celle di St.Vito, in the southern province of Apuilia. Outpost communities where Faetar is spoken are found at least in northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Perhaps the largest of these is in the Greater TorontoArea (hereafter Toronto), where some community members estimate there are >2,000 people from, or with ancestors from, Celle and Faeto.	41.323, 15.162
3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing			Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	100,600	100000			At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					45.7828,6.9982
		2007	Europe and North Asia	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	211-282	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge					Tapani Salminen	Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD	130,000	10000-99999		French, Italian	Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	14		France, Italy, Switzerland	Savoy; Ain; Rhone;Loire, France. Valais;Fribourg, Switzerland. Faeto; Celle San Vito, Italy
			World Oral Literature Project								http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		77,000	10000-99999			Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International			Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	147,000	100000	70,000 in France (1971 census). Population total all countries: 147,000.		At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			France; Switzerland; Italy;

Francoprovençal

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

130,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

77,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

147,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

100,600

Discussion

Francoprovençal

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

130,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

77,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

147,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

100,600

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