Picard

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A language of France

ISO 639-3
pcd
Alternate Names
Chti, Chtimi, Patois, Patois de Nord, Roubaignot, Rouchi
Autonym
Picard
User Population

500,000 in France (Auger 2011). Total users in all countries: 700,000.

Location

Hauts-de-France region: Abbeville, Amiens, Arras, Beauvais, Boulogne sur Mer, Calais (except Dunkerque district), Cambrai, Douai, Lille, Saint Quentin, and Valenciennes; Normandy region: near Dieppe, Picardie border.

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Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct). Recognized language (2013, No. 595), Education.

Classification
Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
Dialects

Ponthieu, Vimeu, Hainaut, Artois, Lillois, Boulonnais, Santerre, Calaisis, Cambresis, Vermandois, Amienois (Amies). All dialects, including those in Belgium, are mutually inherently intelligible.

Language Use

Recognized officially as an indigenous regional language in Belgium. Recognized by the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages. Some French government reports consider it a separate language from French [fra]. Boulonnais dialect has theater, poems, published grammar, dictionary. Home, family, friends, community. Elderly only. Shifted to French [fra].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 70%. Literature. Bible portions: 1863.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Picard
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Christian.

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