Wiktionary:About Franco-Provençal

= Writing systems =

ORB
The Orthographe de réference B devised by Dominique Stich. See here for an overview. This is used for lemmatization on Wiktionary, despite its flaws, since no other comprehensive pan-Franco-Provençal orthography is available.

The ORB comes in two ‘tiers’: broad and narrow (large and serrée in French). The former are general spellings intended for all Franco-Provençal varieties, and the latter are optional modified spellings intended to reflect certain local features. For instance is a broad spelling whilst  is a narrow spelling that can be used to represent regional variants where this word has a fricative instead of [-t-] (see, ).

Graphie BREL
A semi-phonetic writing system devised by the. See here for an overview.

This system is consistently used on Patois VdA for the Valdôtain dialects.

Graphie de Conflans
A semi-phonetic writing system devised by the Groupe de Conflans (now merged with the Centre de la Culture Savoyarde). See here for an overview.

This system is consistently used on the DFP for the Bressan dialects.

= Groupings = To date there exists no scientific classification of the Franco-Provençal (sub-)dialects. As such, a series of geographical and provincial groupings has been adapted here from Stich 2003 (Dictionnaire des mots de base du francoprovençal). See here for an overview.

The groupings have been arranged according to the citation order (pp. 145–7) of the associated locations in the.

See here for an overview of survey points by (macro-)language.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the southeast of the departments of and. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in the.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in what is now the.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in the.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in what is now the.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in the.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in what is now the.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in the.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in what is now the.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Italy in the region of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Italy in the northwest of the region of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the departments of and.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in what is now the department of and.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in the.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Switzerland in what is now the.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the east of the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the northwest of the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the northwest of what is now the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the southwest of the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the southwest of what is now the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the north of the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the north of what is now the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the and the south of the department of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in what is now the and the south of the department of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in what is now the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in the department of (apart from its southeastern fringe) and the northern tip of the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Pre-modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in France in what is now the department of (apart from its southeastern fringe) as well as the northern tip of what is now the department of. Named after the historical province of.

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Modern varieties of Franco-Provençal spoken in Italy in the northwest of the region of.