Lorrain dialect

Lorraine - not to be confused with the German -Lorraine Rhine and Moselle Franconian dialects, the Francique, in the east and north of the Moselle department in Lorraine - Langues d' oïl belongs to which both are often viewed as separate languages ​​as well as dialects of the French be.

Lorraine had - as well as the Walloon - originally a strong influence by Germanic language elements, so the neighboring German dialects was close. At the most original and longest of the Lorraine dialect was preserved in the Alsatian Pays What, the administratively equal to the Canton Lapoutroie. This canton comprises five lothringischsprachige communities in the Vosges above Colmar. The local tradition is what maintained by the Musée du Pays in the village Fréland. The French name What (pronounced " welsch " ) is itself a Germanism, which derives from the name of the Alemannic Alsatian for the Romance language areas in the region on the border with Lorraine, Franche Comté and to the Swiss canton of Jura.

Classification and distribution

The Language Institute ( observatoire linguistique ) Linguasphere seven different variants of the Romanesque Lorraine:

• Argonnisch (French: argonnais ) ( Argonne, Woëvre, east of the French Ardennes, Meuse, Meurthe -et -Moselle )
• Longovizisch ( longovicien ) ( Longwy, Longuyon )
• Gaumesisch ( gaumais ) ( Arrondissement de Virton, Luxembourg Province, Belgium)
• Messinisch or Metze Risch ( messin ) (Metz and the surrounding area and whole Francophone Moselle)
• Nanceisch (or Nanzigerisch ) ( nancéien ) (Nancy, south of Meurthe -et -Moselle )
• Spinalisch (spin alien) ( Epinal, Vosges mountains in the central Vosges )
• Deodatisch ( déodatien ) ( Saint- Dié, Vosges high )

After 1870, the members of the Academy of Stanislas Nancy have 132 variants of Lorraine dialects ( " patois " ) can capture between Thionville in the north and Rupt -sur -Moselle in the south unit, which has a fan-out of the main variations in sub-variants.