Lorrain dialect

Lorrain is a dialect (often referred to as patois) spoken by a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl.

It is classified as a regional language of France and has the recognised status of a regional language of Wallonia, where it is known as Gaumais. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, Germanic languages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.

See also

  • Ban de la Roche
  • External links

  • http://www.travelphrases.info/languages/lorrain.htm
  • (French) Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du comté du Ban de la Roche, Jeremias Jacob Oberlin, 1775
  • Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lorraine". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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    The Daily Mail 22 Feb 2025
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    Love Island's Curtis and Ekin-Su attempt to defend relationship on Lorraine - but it seriously ...

    The Daily Mail 21 Feb 2025
    Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu attempted to defend their relationship on Lorraine on Friday morning - but it seriously backfired as viewers claimed that ‘their body language proves it’s fake!’.
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    In searing 'Lie of the Mind' at Raven Theatre, two out-of-control families near a collision

    Chicago Sun-Times 21 Feb 2025
    Jake, too, returns to his family home where his mother Lorraine (Meighan Gerachis) infantilizes and pampers him, spoon-feeding him soup and insisting the near-death beating was Beth's fault.
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