Poitevin–Saintongeais

Poitevin–Saintongeais (French: poitevin–saintongeais, pronounced [pwatvɛ̃ sɛ̃tɔ̃ʒɛ]; Poitevin–Saintongeais: poetevin-séntunjhaes;^[3] also called Parlanjhe, Aguiain or Aguiainais in French) is a language spoken in the regions of the Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitevin–Saintongeais is officially recognised by the French Ministry of Culture as a language with two dialects: Poitevin and Saintongeais.^[4] The language belongs to the langues d'oïl subbranch of the Gallo-Romance languages.

Poitevin–Saintongeais
poetevin–séntunjhaes
Native to	France
Region	Pays de la Loire Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Native speakers	200,000–300,000 (2017)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian?^[2] Oïl Poitevin–Saintongeais
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance Old French
Dialects	Saintongeais Poitevin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`roa-poi`
Glottolog	`poit1240` Poitevin `sant1407` Santongeais
Linguasphere	`51-AAA-ha`
The Poitevin-Saintongeais-speaking area

Statue of Evariste Poitevin, a poet who wrote in Poitevin–Saintongeais

Some descendants of Poitevin–Saintongeais speakers became the Acadian people of Atlantic Canada as well as the Cajun people of Louisiana.^{[citation needed]}

The dialects of this language are peculiar to the historical regions and provinces of Poitou and Saintonge. It is classified as severely endangered by UNESCO.^[5]

References edit

^ Delavaud, Jean (4 March 2017). "Langues régionales. Une journée pour parler le poitevin-saintongeais" [Regional languages. A day to speak Poitevin-Saintongeais]. Ouest-France (in French). from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022). "Oil". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^ Produccions, Tirabol (13 August 2012). "Lo peitavin-santongés, una lenga sòrre e emergenta". Jornalet (in Occitan). from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "Langues régionales" (in French). Ministère de la Culture. from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". UNESCO. from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

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