Vivaro-Alpine dialect
| Vivaro-Alpine | |
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| Vivaroalpenc, Vivaroaupenc | |
| Spoken in |  France |
| Region | Southern France |
| Language family |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-gf & 51-AAA-gg |
Vivaro-Alpine (English name) or Vivaroalpenc, Vivaroaupenc (native name) is the northeastern dialect of the Occitan language.[1][2] It belongs to the Northern Occitan dialectal group. Vivaro-Alpine is spoken in Southern France and North-Western Italy, and in the remote Guardia Piemontese, Calabria, where it is known as gardiol. The other Northern Occitan dialects are Limousin and Auvergnat.
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[edit] Naming and classification
Vivaro-Alpine had been considered as a sub-dialect of Provençal, and named provençal alpin (Alpine Provençal) or Northern Provençal.[3]
Its use in the Dauphiné area has also lead to the use of dauphinois or dauphinois alpin to name it.[4] Along with Ronjat[4] and Bec,[5] it is now clearly recognized as a dialect of its own.
The UNESCO Atlas of World's languages in danger[6] uses the Alpine Provençal name, and considers it as seriously endangered.
[edit] Subdialects
- Western: Vivarodaufinenc (native name) or Vivaro-Dauphinois (French name) near northern Vivarais (Annonay), northeastern Velay (Yssingeaux), a southern fringe of Forez (Saint-Bonnet-le-Château and around Saint-Étienne), Drôme department (Valence, Die, Montélimar) and a fringe in southern Isère department.
- Eastern: Alpine (English name) or Alpenc, Aupenc (native name), in the Occitan Alps.
- Gavòt (native name) or Gavot (French name) in the western Occitan Alps, which are located in France, around Digne, Sisteron, Gap, Barcelonnette and the upper County of Nice.
- Cisalpine or Eastern Alpine (native names: Cisalpenc or Alpenc Oriental) in the eastern Occitan Alps AKA Occitan Valleys, which are located in Italy (Piedmont and Liguria).
[edit] References
- ^ (French) Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Des langues romanes. Introduction aux études de linguistique romane, De Boeck, 2e édition, 1999,
- ^ La langue se divise en trois grandes aires dialectales : le nord-occitan (limousin, auvergnat, vivaro-alpin), l'occitan moyen, qui est le plus proche de la langue médiévale (languedocien et provençal au sens restreint), et le gascon (à l'ouest de la Garonne). in (French) Encyclopédie Larousse
- ^ (French) Jean-Claude Bouvier, "L'occitan en Provence : limites, dialectes et variété" in Revue de linguistique romane 43, pp 46-62
- ^ a b (French) Jules Ronjat, Grammaire istorique des parlers provençaux modernes, vol. IV Les dialectes, Montpellier, 1941
- ^ (French) Pierre Bec, La langue occitane, Paris, 1995
- ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
[edit] See also
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