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{{Short description|Franco-Provençal dialect of Savoy, France}}
{{redirect|Savoyan|the French wine grape|Mondeuse noire}}
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{{Infobox language
|name=Savoyard 
|nativename=''savoyârd''
|states=[[France]]
|region= [[Savoy]]
|speakers= 35,000
|date=1989
|ref=<ref>''Le francoprovençal, langue oubliée'', Gaston Tuaillon in ''Vingt-cinq communautés linguistiques de la France'', 1989, {{nobr|tome 1}}, p.204, Geneviève Vernes, éditions L’Harmattan.</ref>
|familycolor=Indo-European
| fam2          = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3          = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
| fam4          = [[Latin]]
| fam5          = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam6          = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]
| fam7          = [[Western Romance languages|Western Romance]]
| fam8          = Gallo-Iberian?<ref name="glottoOil">{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Oil |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111104954/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |archive-date=2023-11-11 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}</ref>
| fam9          = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo-Romance]]
| fam10         = Gallo-Rhaetian?<ref name="glottoOil"/>
| fam11         = [[Franco-Provençal|Arpitan]]–[[Langues d'oïl|Oïl]]
| fam12         = [[Franco-Provençal]]
|minority=[[Italy]] (Franco-Provençal protected by statute)<ref name="parl">{{citation |url=http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm |title=Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche |publisher=Italian parliament |access-date=2024-04-29 |archive-date=2012-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502202046/http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
|agency=Institut de la langue savoyarde
|script=[[Latin script|Latin]]
|iso3=
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=savo1253
|glottorefname=Savoyard 
|map=Map-Savoyard language01.png
}}

'''Savoyard''' ({{langx|frp|label=[[endonym]]|savoyârd}}) is a [[Franco-Provençal|Franco-Provençal dialect]] of the [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo-Romance]] family. It is spoken in some territories of the historical [[Duchy of Savoy]], nowadays a geographic area spanning [[Savoie]] and [[Haute-Savoie]], [[France]] and the [[Canton of Geneva]], [[Switzerland]]. It has around 35,000 speakers today.

==Some words ==
Several subdialects of Savoyard exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. This includes many words that have to do with the weather: ''bacan'' (French: ''temps mauvais''); ''coussie'' (French: ''tempête''); ''royé'' (French: ''averse''); ''ni[v]ole'' (French: ''nuage''); ...and, the environment: ''clapia, perrier'' (French: ''éboulis''); ''égra'' (French: ''sorte d'escalier de pierre''); ''balme'' (French: ''grotte''); ''tova'' (French: ''tourbière''); and ''lanche'' (French: ''champ en pente'').

==Linguistic studies==
Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at the ''Centre de dialectologie'' of the [[Stendhal University]], [[Grenoble]], currently under the direction of [[Michel Contini]].

==See also==
*[[Languages of France]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
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[[Category:Franco-Provençal language]]
[[Category:Languages of France]]
[[Category:Arpitania]]


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