Franco-Provençal

[frang-koh-proh-vuhn-sahl, -prov-uhn-]

noun

1. a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.

Example Sentences

TONDER, Denmark — The folk musician Billy Fumey strode onstage on Friday night in this quaint market town in rural Denmark and launched into an intense love song in the endangered language of Franco-Provençal.

From New York Times

John McWhorter, author, "What Language Is" When I have needed information lately, whether about Franco-Provençal or the honey badger, an encyclopedia would have disappointed.

From New York Times

He spoke no English, Rangon didn't, though, of course, both French and Provençal; and as he drove us, there was Carroll, using him as a Franco-Provençal dictionary, peppering him with questions about the names of things in the patois—I beg its pardon, the language—though there's a good deal of my eye and Betty Martin about that, and I fancy this Félibrige business will be in a good many pieces when Frédéric Mistral is under that Court-of-Love pavilion arrangement he's had put up for himself in the graveyard at Maillanne.

From Project Gutenberg