Frainc-Comtou

Frainc-Comtou (French: franc-comtois) is a Romance language of the langues d'oïl language family spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France and in the Canton of Jura and Bernese Jura in Switzerland.

Frainc-Comtou
Frainc-Comtou
Native to	France, Switzerland
Region	Franche-Comté, Canton of Jura, Bernese Jura
Native speakers	(undated figure of c. 4,000)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian[1] Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian?[1] Arpitan–Oïl Oïl Burgundian zone Frainc-Comtou
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance Old French
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	fran1270
Linguasphere	& 51-AAA-hc 51-AAA-ja & 51-AAA-hc
Situation of Frainc-Comtou among the Oïl languages.

History

Jean Priorat's Li abrejance de l'ordre de chevalerie is written in Old French with Frainc-Comtou features.^[2]

Bibliography

• Dalby, David (1999/2000). The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities. (Vol. 2). Hebron, Wales, UK: Linguasphere Press. ISBN 0-9532919-2-8.

See also

• Languages of France
• Languages of Switzerland
• Linguasphere Observatory (Observatoire Linguistique)