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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 Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian?[2] Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian?[2] Arpitan–Oïl Franco-Provençal Savoyard
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Italy (Franco-Provençal protected by statute)[3]
Regulated by	Institut de la langue savoyarde
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	savo1253

Savoyard (endonym:savoyârd) is aFranco-Provençal dialect of theGallo-Romance family. It is spoken in some territories of the historicalDuchy of Savoy, nowadays a geographic area spanningSavoie andHaute-Savoie,France and theCanton of Geneva,Switzerland. It has around 35,000 speakers today.

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); andlanche (French:champ en pente).

Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at theCentre de dialectologie of theStendhal University,Grenoble, currently under the direction ofMichel Contini.

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