Auvergnat

Auvergnat
auvernhat
Native toFrance
RegionAuvergne, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Allier, Cantal, Communities in Limousin
Native speakers
80,000 (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3auv (retired); subsumed in oci
Glottologauve1239
ELPAuvergnat
Linguasphere51-AAA-gi
IETFoc-auvern[2][3]

Auvergnat (/ˌvɛrnˈjɑː/)[4] or Occitan auvergnat[5] (endonym: auvernhat [6]) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne.

Currently, research shows that there is not really a true Auvergnat dialect but rather a vast northern Occitan linguistic area. The word "Auvergnat" is above all a local historiographical creation.[7][8] According to linguist Jean Roux, "It is by simplification that we use this term, because in no case Auvergnat can be considered as an autonomous linguistic entity".[9]

With around 80,000 speakers in the Auvergne region at the beginning of the 21st century, it is considered to be severely endangered.

  1. ^ Auvergnat at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Occitan (post 1500)". IANA language subtag registry. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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  4. ^ "Auvergnat". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
  5. ^ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette Petit Futé Auvergne - 2017 Flammarion Groupe 2017
  6. ^ "nh" in Auvergnat is pronounced /ɲ/, as is "gn" in French
  7. ^ Jean Roux (Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3),Huit siècles de littérature occitane en Auvergne et Velay, éditions EMCC, Lyon, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-357405-09-7).
  8. ^ Jean Roux (Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3), L'auvergnat de poche, Assimil, coll. « Assimil évasion », Chennevières-sur-Marne, 2002, 246 p. (ISBN 2-7005-0319-8), (ISSN 1281-7554), (BNF 38860579)
  9. ^ Jean Roux, 2002. French text : "C'est par simplification que l'on utilise ce vocable, car en aucun cas l'auvergnat ne peut être considéré comme une entité linguistique autonome."