French-Provençal

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: French‧Pro‧ven‧çal
• IPA^(key): /fɹɛnt͡ʃ pɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/

Proper noun

French-Provençal

1. (nonstandard, rare) Franco-Provençal, Arpitan.
   • 1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana: a universal reference library, volume 11:

     From the district so influenced by the Provençal, we pass by some intermediate grades, to that which is plainly French-Provençal, above all in the valleys of the southern Stura, of Oreo (Val SoanaL of the Dora Baltea (Val d'Aosta).

   • 1917, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 9, page 245:

     The Saône and the Rhône are considered the eastern limits of French, since beyond these rivers from Bescançon on the north to Grenoble on the south a mixed dialect called French-Provençal was used.

   • 1987, Giuseppe Zoppelli, La poesia in Valle d'Aosta, Forli: ed. Forum/Quinta Generazione, page 07:

     His best work in French-Provençal was written in the decade 1855-66: Marenda a Tsesalet, La bataille di vatse a Vertozan, Megnadzo de Monseur Abonde.

   • 2006, J. M. Smits, Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, →ISBN, page 352:

     [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]

Translations

Franco-Provençal — see Franco-Provençal

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Franco-Provençal terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code frp (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for French-Provençal, frp ⁠