Picard

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A language of France

ISO 639-3
pcd
Alternate Names
Chtimi, Rouchi
Population

Population total all countries: 200,000.

Location

Region de Picardie, Amiens, Abbeville, Beauvais, Saint Quentin; region Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lille, Douai, Cambrai, Arras, Valenciennes, Boulogne sur Mer, Calais (except Dunkerque district); east zone, Haute Normandie region near Dieppe, Picardie border. Also in Belgium.

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Language Status

5 (Developing).

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

Amienois (Amies), Artois, Boulonnais, Calaisis, Cambresis, Hainaut, Lillois, Ponthieu, Santerre, Vermandois, Vimeu. 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. Boulonnais dialect has theater, poems, published grammar, dictionary. Home, family, friends, community. Also use French [fra].

Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 70%. Poetry. Bible portions: 1863.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Picard
Writing
Latin script.
Other Comments

Christian.

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