The vivaro-alpine is the variety of North-occitan spoken in part of the Velay, the north of the Vivarais, the southernmost Dauphiné and the the Alps (of language Occitan E) in France and Italy (to note that the Bas-vivarois, north-occitan also, is to him north-Cevennes Languedocien).

The vivaro-alpine division with the other varieties of north-occitan (the Languedocien Limousin, auvergnat, septentrional) the Palatalization of the consonants K and G in front of has in particular: chantar (“to sing”), jai (“geai”). The southernmost occitan has respectively: cantar , merry .

Its principal characteristic is the fall of the simple Latin intervocalic dental consonants: chantaa or chantaia for chantada (“sung”), monea for moneda (“currency”), Bastia or bastiá for bastida (“built”), maür for madur (“ripe”). In particular, the T final of the male past participles is amuï there: chantà (noted chantat in traditional C-W communication) for chantat (“sung”).

The verbal ending of first nobody is O there (as in Italian, Eastern Catalan, Castillan and Portuguese, but also in Piémontais, variety nearest to the septentrional Italian ): parlo for parli or speaks (“I speak”), parlavo for parlavi or parlave (“I spoke”), parlèro for parlèri or parlère (“I spoke, I spoke”).

A frequent feature is the Rhotacisme of L (passage of L to R ): barma for balma or bauma (“cave”), will escòra for escòla (“school”), saraa or saraia for salada (“salad”).

In the speeches of the Alps, thealpine one maintained the pronunciation of R final of infinitives (made exceptional in occitan modern).

External bonds

• the Patois of Villar-St-Pancrace

• Espaci Dizionario - Italian Dictionary - Occitan (vivaro-alpine)
• Tèrras occitanas of Calved E Vivarés

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