Hello French people, I am making a map about the languages of Europe, and I really wanted to know what languages of France are languages and/or dialects, is this map accurate? Best regards from Portugal 🇵🇹 🤝 🇫🇷

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1. Good Job !
   Between Alsatian and Lorrain, we can found Mosellans – a dialect which is also spoken in Germany (Rhenanie-Palatina) and a dialect which is spoken in Luxembourg.

2. Cette carte me fout en rogne.

3. How many people under 30 are able to speak a local dialect ? 0.5%, less ?

4. Nice work, but did you leave out corse on purpose? They have nice dialects

5. What is Norman? Is this the English name for Cauchois?

6. You forgot Corsica.

7. First, what the hell happened to corsica there ? They even have their own language so it’s very relevant.

   Two, I guess we just dump French Guyana and the other regions ?

   Three, what are you actually looking for ? Theoritical map of languages areas on an historical level, or actual map of areas where other language are actually used ? Because that made is doing both while being bad at both.

   Eg I won’t go into the other parts but just in the northern France part, Oïl language should really have more of a differentiation, it lists many that are historical but don’t exist anymore, and some that are still talked. And then it’s not even good at that: it bothers to differentiate Gallo, Angevin, Touangeau, … That essentially don’t exist and are not used at all for over a century, but it mashes together Chtimi and Picard under the Picard name despite those two being the biggest still used Oïl language in France (in fact Chtimi is probably the most used, and it’s not on the map …). [See Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl) for more informations.

   And even then, putting on the same level of differentiation Chtimi (talked commonly, but not having a different teaching or specific spelling on official documentation etc…), Breton (essentially not talked commonly, but taught and used in official documentation), … This is really bad.

8. On the north near dunkirk, you can add flemish

9. “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.” Max Weinreich

   It’s a purely artificial distinction.

10. This is a good start ! You may find a more accurate map here : https://atlas.limsi.fr/

    This is an interactive map and you can actually hear how the various dialects sound like.

11. France eradicated most of its minorities with only a few that somewhat still exist like Corsican, Alsatian and maybe Breton but for the others, they are mostly spoken by 60+ years old

12. You forget gallo for haute Bretagne