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Գ-ʰDZç
[ frang-koh-proh-vuhn-sahl, -prov-uhn- ]
noun
- a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
Example Sentences
TONDER, Denmark — The folk musician Billy Fumey strode onstage on Friday night in this quaint market town in rural Denmark and launched into an intense love song in the endangered language of Գ-ʰDZç.
John McWhorter, author, "What Language Is" When I have needed information lately, whether about Գ-ʰDZç or the honey badger, an encyclopedia would have disappointed.
He spoke no English, Rangon didn't, though, of course, both French and Provençal; and as he drove us, there was Carroll, using him as a Գ-ʰDZç dictionary, peppering him with questions about the names of things in the patois—I beg its pardon, the language—though there's a good deal of my eye and Betty Martin about that, and I fancy this Félibrige business will be in a good many pieces when Frédéric Mistral is under that Court-of-Love pavilion arrangement he's had put up for himself in the graveyard at Maillanne.
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