Lorrain language

{{short description|Regional language of France}}

{{About|the Romance dialect spoken in the Lorraine region of France|the Germanic dialect spoken in northern Lorraine|Lorraine Franconian}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Lorrain

|nativename=gaumais

|region=Northeastern France, Belgium

|speakers=?

|familycolor=Indo-European

| fam2 = Italic

| fam3 = Latino-Faliscan

| fam4 = Romance

| fam5 = Italo-Western

| fam6 = Western Romance

| fam7 = Gallo-Romance

| fam8 = Gallo-Rhaetian{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |title=Oil |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Glottolog |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008064016/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |archive-date=2022-10-08 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}} (possibly)

| fam9 = Oïl

| ancestor = Old Latin

| ancestor2 = Vulgar Latin

| ancestor3 = Proto-Romance

| ancestor4 = Old Gallo-Romance

| ancestor5 = Old French

| dia1 = Gaumais{{Cite web |url=https://www.meix-devant-virton.be/ma-commune/decouvrir/culture-traditions/patois-gaumais |title=Le gaumais |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Commune de Meix-devant-Virton en Gaume |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320011637/www.meix-devant-virton.be/ma-commune/decouvrir/culture-traditions/patois-gaumais |archive-date=2022-03-20 |url-status=live}}

| dia2 = Welche

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = lorr1242

| glottorefname = Lorraine

| map = Langues d'oïl.PNG

| mapcaption = Lorrain, at the east among other oïl languages

}}

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Lorrain, also known as Lorrain roman, is a langue d'oïl spoken by a minority of people in the region of Lorraine in northeastern France, as well as in some parts of Alsace and Gaume in Belgium. It is often referred to as a patois.

It is a regional language of France. In Wallonia, it is known as Gaumais and enjoys official recognition as a regional language. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, West Central German languages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}