(documentation PicardLanguage EnglishLanguage "The PicardLanguage is aFrenchGroupLanguage of France. SIL code: PCD. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: No estimate available. Region: Most of the Region de Picardie (Amiens, Abbeville, Beauvais, St. Quentin), the Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Lille, Douai, Cambrai, Arras, Valenciennes, Boulogne sur Mer, Calais), except the Dunkerque District, and a little eastern zone (border with Picardie of the Region de Haute Normandie near Dieppe). Alternate names: ROUCHI, CHTIMI. Dialects: PONTHIEU, VIMEU, HAINAUT, ARTOIS, LILLOIS, BOULONNAIS, SANTERRE, CALAISIS, CAMBRESIS, VERMANDOIS, AMIENOIS. Comments: All dialects, including those in Belgium are inherently intelligible to speakers. French is spoken at school, in court, for administration, with outsiders. Home, family, friends, in local stores. The Belgian government recognizes Picard officially as an indigenous regional language. The European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages considers it as a language. Some reports used and edited by the French government consider it a separate language from French. No standardized writing system. Poetry. Also spoken in: Belgium. (Language name: PICARD.) Alternate names: ROUCHI, CHTIMI. Dialects: BELGIAN PICARD. Comments: All dialects, including those in France are inherently intelligible to speakers. French is spoken at school, in court, for administration, with outsiders. Home, family, friends, in local stores. The Belgian government recognizes Picard officially as an indigenous regional language. The European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages considers it as a language. Some reports used and edited by the French government consider it a separate language from French. No standardized writing system. Poetry.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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