Savoyard dialect

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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
Recognised minority language in	Italy (Franco-Provençal protected by statute)[2]
Regulated by	Institut de la langue savoyarde
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	savo1253

Savoyard (endonym: savoyârd) 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.