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PCD ISO 639-3

Picard

Picard Autonym

A language of France

ISO 639
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Alternate Names
Chti, Chtimi, Patois, Patois de Nord, Roubaignot, Rouchi
Autonym
Picard
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.
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.

Also Spoken in

Language Name
Picard
User Population
200,000 in Belgium (Salminen 2007).
Location
Hainaut province: Ath, Mons, Soignies, and Tournai municipalities.
Dialects
Belgian Picard.
Language Status
6b (Threatened)
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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.