Lorrain language

Lorrain
gaumais
Region	Northeastern France, Belgium
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Gallo-Romance Oïl Lorrain
Dialects	Welche
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	lorr1242
Lorrain, at the east among other oïl languages

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Lorrain is a language (often referred to as patois) spoken by a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl.

It is classified as a regional language of France and has the recognised status of a regional language of Wallonia, where it is known as Gaumais. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, West Central German language spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.

See also[]

• Ban de la Roche

External links[]

• http://www.travelphrases.info/languages/lorrain.htm
• (in French) Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du comté du Ban de la Roche, Jeremias Jacob Oberlin, 1775

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