Editing Lorrain language (section)

{{short description|Regional language of France}}
{{About|the Romance dialect spoken in the Lorraine region of France|the Germanic dialect spoken in northern Lorraine|Lorraine Franconian}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Lorrain
|nativename=''gaumais''
|region=Northeastern [[France]], [[Belgium]]
|speakers=?
|familycolor=Indo-European
| fam2          = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3          = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
| fam4          = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam5          = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]
| fam6          = [[Western Romance languages|Western Romance]]
| fam7          = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo-Romance]]
| fam8          = Gallo-Rhaetian<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |title=Oil |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008064016/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |archive-date=2022-10-08 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}</ref> (possibly)
| fam9          = [[Langues d'oïl|Oïl]]
| ancestor      = [[Old Latin]]
| ancestor2     = [[Vulgar Latin]]
| ancestor3     = [[Proto-Romance language|Proto-Romance]]
| ancestor4     = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Old Gallo-Romance]]
| ancestor5     = [[Old French]]
| dia1          = Gaumais<ref name=Gaumais>{{Cite web |url=https://www.meix-devant-virton.be/ma-commune/decouvrir/culture-traditions/patois-gaumais |title=Le gaumais |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Commune de [[Meix-devant-Virton]] en Gaume |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320011637/www.meix-devant-virton.be/ma-commune/decouvrir/culture-traditions/patois-gaumais |archive-date=2022-03-20 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| dia2          = [[Welche]]
| isoexception  = dialect
| glotto        = lorr1242
| glottorefname = Lorraine
| map           = Langues d'oïl.PNG
| mapcaption    = Lorrain, at the east among other [[langues d'oïl|''oïl'' languages]]
}}
{{Lorraine sidebar}}
'''Lorrain''', also known as '''Lorrain roman''', is a ''[[langue d'oïl]]'' spoken by a minority of people in the region of [[Lorraine (region)|Lorraine]] in northeastern [[France]], as well as in some parts of [[Alsace]] and [[Gaume]] in Belgium. It is often referred to as a [[patois]].

It is a [[languages of France|regional language of France]]. In [[Wallonia]], it is known as '''Gaumais'''<ref name=Gaumais /> and enjoys official recognition as a regional language. It has been influenced by [[Lorraine Franconian]] and [[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourgish]], [[West Central German]] languages spoken in nearby or overlapping areas.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}