• Threatened

  40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 150,000

  Native speakers worldwide
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  (This rough estimate was calculated by taking 12% [self-reported fluent speakers in 2006] of 1,300,000 [approximate population of Auvergne region in 2008].)

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

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In a 2006 survey, 61% reported understanding their regional language somewhat, and 22% perfectly. 42% reported speaking somewhat, and 12% fluently.

• Not available

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "The 2004 Ethnologue figure of 1,315,000 speakers without source reference seems grossly inflated"
  

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

The departments of Cantal (except Aurillac region), Haute-Loire, and Puy-de-Dôme, and extending to the Gannat region in Allier, the Saint-Bonnet-le-Château region in Loire, and the western border areas in Ardèche