Romands

{{Short description|Gallo-Romance ethnic group}}

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| image = File:Bauerinnen ausChampery inHosen.jpg

| image_caption = Farmers of Champery, Valais (1904)

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| regions = Romandy

| languages = Swiss French, Franco-Provençal, Frainc-Comtou

| religions = Calvinism, Catholicism

| related_groups = Other Swiss, French, Jèrriais, Normans, Walloons, Québécois, Acadians

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Romands are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Romandy, in western Switzerland. Traditionally they spoke Franco-Provençal, as well as Frainc-Comtou in Canton of Jura. These languages have since fallen into disuse in favor of the standard French language. The Romands descend largely from the Gallo-Romans and the Burgundians.{{Cite book|author=James Minahan|title=One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC|date=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=545|isbn=0313309841}} They are referred to by Swiss Germans as Welsche.