Savoyard dialect
| Savoyard | |
|---|---|
| savoyârd | |
| Native to | France |
| Region | Savoy |
Native speakers | (35,000 cited 1989) |
Indo-European
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| Latin | |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Italy (Franco-Provençal protected by statute) |
| Regulated by | Institut de la langue savoyarde |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | savo1253 |
Savoyard (endonym: savoyârd) is a Franco-Provençal dialect of the Gallo-Romance family. It is spoken in some territories of the historical Duchy of Savoy, nowadays a geographic area spanning Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France and the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It has around 35,000 speakers today.