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Europe and North Asia
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

130,000

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

France, Italy, Switzerland

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Location description

Savoy; Ain; Rhone;Loire, France. Valais;Fribourg, Switzerland. Faeto; Celle San Vito, Italy

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Savoy; Ain; Rhone;Loire, France. Valais;Fribourg, Switzerland. Faeto; Celle San Vito, Italy

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Other languages used

French, Italian

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At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

100,600

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

45.7828,6.9982

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At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

147,000

Domains of Use

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70,000 in France (1971 census). Population total all countries: 147,000.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

France; Switzerland; Italy;

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Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Italy

Coordinates

41.323, 15.162

Location description

Faeto and Celle di St.Vito, in the southern province of Apuilia. Outpost communities where Faetar is spoken are found at least in northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Perhaps the largest of these is in the Greater TorontoArea (hereafter Toronto), where some community members estimate there are >2,000 people from, or with ancestors from, Celle and Faeto.

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Faeto and Celle di St.Vito, in the southern province of Apuilia. Outpost communities where Faetar is spoken are found at least in northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Perhaps the largest of these is in the Greater TorontoArea (hereafter Toronto), where some community members estimate there are >2,000 people from, or with ancestors from, Celle and Faeto.

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

77,000

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    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
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    Naomi Nagy. 2011. "Lexical Change and Language Contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada." In Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15: 366–382.
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  7. Le Patois Créole Français de la Guyane
    Corne, C. 1971. "Le Patois Créole Français De La Guyane." In Te Reo, 14: 81-103.
  8. Faetar
    Nagy, Naomi. 2000. "Faetar." 299: München: Lincom.