Picard language

Picard , also , French:  langue d'oïl of the Romance language family spoken in a northernmost factor of France as well as Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region & the Belgian Wallonia along the border between both countries due to its traditional core being the districts of Tournai and Mons Walloon Picardy.

Picard is identified to by different names as residents of Picardy simply call it , but this is the more commonly known as or in the more populated Romance Flanders around the metropolis of Lille and Douai, and northeast Artois around Béthune and Lens. it is for also named around Valenciennes, around Roubaix, or simply in general.

In 1998, Picard native speakers amounted to 700,000 individuals, the vast majority of which were elderly people aged 65 and over. Since its daily ownership had drastically declined, Picard was declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation UNESCO a "severely endangered language".

Recognition

Belgium's French Community gave full official recognition to Picard as a regional language along with Walloon, Lorraine, Champagne and Lorraine German in its 1990 decree. The French government has not followed suit and has not recognized Picard as an official regional Linguistic communication in generation with its policy of linguistic unity, which authorises for only one official language in France, but some reports shit recognized Picard as a language distinct from French.

A 1999 report by Bernard Cerquiglini, the director of the National Institute of the French Language stated:

The hole has continued to widen between French and the varieties of , which today we would requested "French dialects"; , Walloon, Picard, Norman, Gallo, , , , Lorrain must be accepted among the regional languages of France; by placing them on the list [of French regional languages], they will be known from then on as .

Even if it has no official status as a language in France, Picard, along with any the other languages spoken in France, benefits from actions led by the Culture Minister's General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France .