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FrancoProvencalLanguage
The FrancoProvencalLanguage is a SoutheasternOielLanguage of France. SIL code: FRA. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: Population total all countries 77,000 or more. Region: Savoie, southeastern France, near the Italian and Switzerland borders. Alternate names: PATOIS. Dialects: DAUPHINOIS, LYONNAIS, NEUCATELAIS, SAVOYARD. Comments: Structurally separate language from Provencal, French, Piemontese, and Lombard (F. B. Agard). Bilingualism in French. Bible portions 1830. Also spoken in: Italy. (Language name: FRANCO-PROVENCAL.) Population: 70,000 in Italy (1971 census), including 700 Faetar speakers (1995 Naomi Nagy). Dialects: VALLE D'AOSTA (PATOE VALDOTEN, VALDOTAIN, VALDOSTANO), FAETO (FAETAR), CELLE SAN VITO. Comments: A structurally separate language from Provencal, French, Piemontese, and Lombard (F.B. Agard). Bilingualism in Italian, Piemontese. Most occasions. Bible portions 1830. Also spoken in: Switzerland. (Language name: FRANCO-PROVENCAL. Population: 7,000 in Valais Canton, Switzerland (1998). Alternate names: PATOIS. Dialects: SAVOYARD, NEUCH-TELOIS, VALAISAN, VAUDOIS. Comments: A structurally separate language from Provencal, French, Piemontese, and Lombard (F.B. Agard). Every canton in Switzerland has its own dialect, with no standardization. Difficult intelligibility among the dialects, and especially with Fribourg. Bilingualism in French. Valais Canton: young and old in Evolene commune, communes of Heremence, Vex, Saint-Martin, Saviese, Nendaz, Cermignon, Fully, Arbaz, Ayent, Vissole, and other smaller villages in the central Valais, and persons in towns like Sion and Sierre, spoken by persons 50 and older, understood by persons 35-40. Fribourg Canton: rural areas as Gruyere. Dictionary. Bible portions 1830.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 entit�The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 GalloIberianLanguageOf the 32 WesternRomanceLanguages, 30 of these are classified as a GalloIberianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 GalloRhaetianLanguageOf the 13 GalloRomanceLanguages, eight of these are classified as a GalloRhaetianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 GalloRomanceLanguageOf the 30 GalloIberianLanguages, 13 of these are classified as a GalloRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 langage humainThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ItalicLanguageAn ItalicLanguage is any of 48 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguageOf the 47 RomanceLanguages, 38 of these are classified as an ItaloWesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 langageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 expression linguistiqueThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 langage naturelThe subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
 OielLanguageOf the eight GalloRhaetianLanguages, five of these are classified as an OielLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 physiqueAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 RomanceLanguageOf the 48 ItalicLanguages, 47 of these are classified as a RomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 SoutheasternOielLanguageOf the five OielLanguages, one of these is classified as a SoutheasternOielLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 WesternRomanceLanguageOf the 38 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguages, 32 of these are classified as a WesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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