Savoyard dialect

{{Short description|Franco-Provençal dialect of Savoy, France}}

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{{Expand French|date=February 2024}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Savoyard

|nativename=savoyârd

|states=France

|region= Savoy

|speakers= 35,000

|date=1989

|ref=Le francoprovençal, langue oubliée, Gaston Tuaillon in Vingt-cinq communautés linguistiques de la France, 1989, {{nobr|tome 1}}, p.204, Geneviève Vernes, éditions L’Harmattan.

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Italic

|fam3=Latino-Faliscan

|fam4=Romance

|fam5=Italo-Western

|fam6=Western

|fam7=Gallo-Romance

|fam8=Franco-Provençal

|minority=Italy (Franco-Provençal protected by statute){{citation |url=http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm |title=Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche |publisher=Italian parliament |access-date=2024-04-29 |archive-date=2012-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502202046/http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm |url-status=live }}

|agency=Institut de la langue savoyarde

|script=Latin

|iso3=

|isoexception=dialect

|glotto=savo1253

|glottorefname=Savoyard

|map=Map-Savoyard language01.png

}}

Savoyard ({{langx|frp|label=endonym|savoyârd}}) is a Franco-Provençal dialect of the Gallo-Romance family. It is spoken in some territories of the historical Duchy of Savoy, nowadays a geographic area spanning Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France and the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It has around 35,000 speakers today.