Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) [2] is a language within the Gallo-Romance family, originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy.

Arpitania (Arpitan and Italian: Arpitania, French: Arpitanie) is a term which denotes the purported ethnic or cultural unity of the Western Alps, represented by speakers of Franco-Provençal (termed Arpitan).

Speakers of the language increasingly call it Arpitan, a neologism popularised in the 1980s by the Mouvement Harpitanya, and which comes from a word meaning "alpine / mountain highlands". The language is known as Romand in Switzerland, and native speakers also call is patouès (patois) or nosta moda ("our way [of speaking]").

2018年10月5日 · The majority of residents in Aosta Valley, an autonomous region northwest of Italy, still speak Franco-Provençal. In the 1980s, a political organization in the Aosta Valley called Mouvement Harpitanya attempted to rebrand the language as “Arpitan.”

The Arpitan language, also known as Franco–Provençal, is a Romance language spoken mainly in the Savoy region of France, as well as in parts of Switzerland and Italy. It is an endangered language with dialectal variations.

2020年8月1日 · In the northern Apulian village of Faeto, residents speak a dialect of Arpitan, a romance language classified as Francoprovençal. Their linguistic heritage dates all the way back to medieval conquest of Charles of Anjou in the 13th century.

L’arpitan, également appelé francoprovençal (à ne pas confondre avec le provençal) est une langue à part entière, mais repérée seulement au XIXe siècle, et dont les spécificités et les frontières n’ont été définies qu’au courant du XXe siècle, ce qui explique qu’elle soit si mal connue (localement on dit sans complexe ...

Francoprovençal ou arpitan? Depuis quelques années, le francoprovençal est également appelé ‘arpitan’, surtout par certains ‘néo-locuteurs’ issues des plus jeunes générations (en particulier au sein de l’Aliance culturèla arpitanna).

The Franco-Provencal or Arpitan language (in French: franco-provençal, in French and in Arpitan: arpitan) is a Romance language used in some parts of France, Italy and Switzerland. Its native distribution area is known as Arpitania.

Arpitan is an endangered indigenous language of France, Italy, and Switzerland. It belongs to the Indo-European language family. The language is used as a first language by the elderly only. It is not known to be taught in schools.