dialects Auregnais / Aoeur'gnaeux (extinct) Guernésiais / Dgèrnésiais Jèrriais Sercquiais (nearly extinct) Anglo-Norman / Anglo-Norman French (Norman) (significantly contributed to Middle English vocabulary, many English words of Latin origin came through Anglo-Norman) (extinct) North Oïl Proper Picard (Picard / Chti / Chtimi / Rouchi / Roubaignot) (archaic North Gallo-Romance language, less palatalization in comparison with Central, Eastern and Western Oïl languages) (north of Joret line) Amiénois Vimeu-Ponthieu Vermandois Thiérache Beauvaisis "Chtimi" (Bassin Minier, Lille) Lille (Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Mouscron, Comines) (Roubaignot) "Rouchi" – Tournaisis (Valenciennois) Borain Artésien Rural Boulonnais Walloon (Walon) (although it is closely related to Picard and a North Oïl language, it is south of Joret line) Western Waloon / Wallo-Picard (Walo-Picård) – the dialect closest to French proper and with a strong Picard influence, spoken in Charleroi (Tchårlerwè), Nivelles (Nivele), and Philippeville (Flipvile) Central Waloon / Namurois (Walon do Mitan) – spoken in Namur (Nameur), the Wallon capital, and the cities of Wavre (Åve) and Dinant Eastern Waloon / Liégeois (Walon do Levant) – in many respects the most conservative and idiosyncratic of the dialects, spoken in Liège (Lidje), Verviers (Vervî), Malmedy (Måmdi), Huy (Hu), and Waremme (Wareme) Southern Waloon / Wallo-Lorrain (Walon Nonnrece) – close to the Lorrain and to a lesser extent Champenois languages, spoken in Bastogne, Marche-en-Famenne (Måtche-el-Fåmene), and Neufchâteau (Li Tchestea), all in the Ardennes region. Southwest Oïl Poitevin-Saintongeais (Poetevin-Séntunjhaes) (South Gallo-Romance Occitan substrate) Poitevin (Poetevin) Saintongeais (Saintonjhais) Zarphatic (Judaeo-French) (צרפתית – Tzarfatit]]) (from Zarpha = Tzarfa, Jewish name for France) (extinct) Moselle Romance (extinct) British Romance (?) (language of the Romano-Britons or Romanised Britons) (extinct) Occitan-Hispanic (Occitan-Ibero-Romance) (Southern Gallo-Romance – Hispano-Romance) (dialect continuum) Occitan (Southern Gallo-Romance) (Langues d'Oc) (dialect continuum) Old Occitan / Old Provençal (Proensals / Proençal / Romans / Lenga d'Òc / Lemosin) (extinct) Occitan (Occitan / Lenga d'Òc / Lemosin / Provençal) Arverno-Mediterranean Eastern Provençal (Provençau (classical norm) / Prouvençau (mistralian norm)) Niçard / Nissart (in the lower County of Nice) (sometimes considered as a Ligurian dialect, however most scholars consider it to be an Occitan dialect) Maritime (Maritim / Centrau/Mediterranèu) Rhodanien (Rodanenc) Shuadit (Judaeo-Provençal / Judaeo-Occitan) (Chouadit) (שואדית – Shuadit) (in Comtat Venaissin) (extinct) Vivaro-Alpine (Alpine Provençal, Gavòt) (Vivaroalpenc / Vivaroaupenc) Eastern Alpine Cisalpine / Eastern Alpine (Cisalpenc / Alpenc Oriental) (in the Occitan Valleys, which are located in Italy – Piedmont and Liguria) Mentonasc (in and around Menton) (sometimes considered as transitional between Ligurian and Occitan, however