This book takes us on a special journey through the linguistic landscape of the Croissant. The languages of the Croissant are traditionally spoken on the northern edge of the Massif Central. As part of the Gallo-Romance language family, they also have numerous characteristics of Occitan (Limousin or Auvergnat), but also of the Oïl languages (French, Berrichon, Bourbonnais or Poitevin-Saintongeais).
Poitevin-Saintongeais). Each chapter of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince” is found in its own variety and thus gives an insight into the extraordinary diversity that characterizes the croissant.
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A Romance world language with over 80 million native speakers worldwide and hundreds of millions of second-language speakers. It developed from Vulgar Latin in northern Gaul and today shows a strong discrepancy between conservative orthography and modern pronunciation.