Savoyard is a dialect of Arpitan (Franco-Provençal). It is spoken in some territories of the historical Duchy of Savoy nowadays a geographic area spanning France (in Savoie and Haute-Savoie) and Switzerland (in the canton of Geneva). The varieties are commonly known as patois. It has around 35 thousand speakers today.
family
Italic languages, Romance languages, Gallo-Romance languages, Western Romance languages
language regulator or academy
Institute_of_the_savoyard_language
spoken in
Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, Aosta Valley, France, Valais
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