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Auvergnat | |
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auvernhat | |
Native to | France |
Region | Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Allier, Cantal, Communities in Limousin |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2004)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | auv (retired); subsumed in oci |
Glottolog | auve1239 |
ELP | Auvergnat |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-gi |
IETF | oc-auvern[2][3] |
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Auvergnat (/ˌoʊvɛrnˈjɑː/)[4] or Occitan auvergnat[5] (endonym: auvernhat [6]) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne.
Currently, research shows that there is not really a true Auvergnat dialect but rather a vast northern Occitan linguistic area. The word "Auvergnat" is above all a local historiographical creation.[7][8] According to linguist Jean Roux, "It is by simplification that we use this term, because in no case Auvergnat can be considered as an autonomous linguistic entity".[9]
With around 80,000 speakers in the Auvergne region at the beginning of the 21st century, it is considered to be severely endangered.