Savoyard 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.

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Savoyard
savoyârd
Native to	France
Region	Savoy
Native speakers	(35,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Romance Franco-Provençal Savoyard
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Franco-Provençal protected by statute in Italy[2]
Regulated by	Institut de la langue savoyarde
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	savo1253

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Several subdialects of Savoyard exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. This includes many words that have to do with the weather: bacan (French: temps mauvais); coussie (French: tempête); royé (French: averse); ni[v]ole (French: nuage); ...and, the environment: clapia, perrier (French: éboulis); égra (French: sorte d'escalier de pierre); balme (French: grotte); tova (French: tourbière); and lanche (French: champ en pente).

Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at the Centre de dialectologie of the Stendhal University, Grenoble, currently under the direction of Michel Contini.

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