French-Provençal

French·Pro·ven·çal
/fɹɛnt͡ʃ pɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/

proper noun

Franco-Provençal, Arpitan.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. nonstandardrareFranco-Provençal, Arpitan.

    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.

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

    1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana: a universal reference library, volume 11

    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.

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

    [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’[.]

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

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