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Where is Arpitan spoken?

Arpitan (patoué) is an Indo-European language, spoken in France, Italy and Switzerland. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Arpitan is spoken

Arpitan is spoken in 3 countries: France, Italy and Switzerland.

Country
France
Italy
Switzerland

Arpitan has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Arpitan?

Wikidata gives about 227,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2013). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Arpitan sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Arpitan as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Italic
  4. Latino-Faliscan
  5. Latinic
  6. Imperial Latin
  7. Romance
  8. Italo-Western Romance
  9. Western Romance
  10. Shifted Western Romance
  11. Northwestern Shifted Romance
  12. Gallo-Rhaetian
  13. Oil
  14. Francoprovencalic
  15. Arpitan

Related languages

Other languages in the Francoprovencalic group:

More about Arpitan

Codes: ISO 639-3 frp, Glottolog fran1260. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Arpitan is a Romance language, descended from Latin. Latin’s footprint: the Roman Empire at its height → Latin spread along Roman roads →

Questions about Arpitan

Where is Arpitan spoken?

Arpitan is spoken in France, Italy and Switzerland. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Arpitan?

Wikidata gives about 227,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2013). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Arpitan in?

Glottolog places Arpitan in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Northwestern Shifted Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oil and Francoprovencalic.

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