Frainc-Comtou dialect

Frainc - Comtou is a language that belongs to the Langues d' oïl, a group of Romance languages ​​. It is spoken in the Franche -Comté, the Sundgau and in the Swiss canton of Jura. There is a Germanic influence. It has the particularity that is used ch what the pronunciation of the sound is as I in. There are documents in this language from the 17th century. Beginning of the 20th century is almost gone the language. The linguist Colette Dondaine has the Atlas linguistique et ethnographique de Franche-Comté published.

2007 Dictionary French - Frainc - comtou was published. The article 42.2 of the Constitution of the Swiss canton of Jura finds that the state watches over the preservation of dialect.

Dialects

  • Saône
  • Doubs Ognon
  • Lomont -Doubs
  • Ajoulot
  • Vâdais
  • Taignon

Publications

  • " Voiyïn " Société d' Emulation Jurassienne ( SJE )
  • " Lou patois de tchie nos " pour l' Union des patoisants de langue romane de Belfort
  • " Le Nove S'raye " pour l' APE, association of patoisants romans du Sundgau ( Alace - Haut- Rhin)
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