Vivaro-Alpine ( Occitan : vivaroalpenc, vivaroaupenc ) is a variety of Occitan spoken in southeastern France (namely, around the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria ). There is also a small Vivaro-Alpine enclave in the Guardia Piemontese , Calabria , where the language is known as gardiòl . It belongs to the Northern Occitan dialect bloc, along with Auvergnat and Limousin . The name “vivaro-alpine” was coined by Pierre Bec in the 1970s. The Vivaro-Alpine dialects are traditionally called "gavot" from the Maritime Alps to the Hautes-Alpes .
8-596: Montélimar ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃telimaʁ] ; Vivaro-Alpine : Montelaimar pronounced [muntelajˈma] ; Latin : Acumum ) is a town in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France . It is the second-largest town in the department after Valence . In 2018, the commune had a population of 39,415; its urban area had
16-539: A humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) according to the Köppen climate classification . Montélimar is twinned with: Vivaro-Alpine dialect Vivaro-Alpine had been considered as a sub-dialect of Provençal , and named provençal alpin (Alpine Provençal) or Northern Provençal. Its use in the Dauphiné area has also led to the use of dauphinois or dauphinois alpin to name it. Along with Ronjat and Bec, it
24-570: A population of 57,372. The site where the city of Montélimar stands today has been inhabited since the Celtic era. It was reconstructed during the Roman reign , including a basilica , aqueducts , thermae and a forum . The Adhémar family reigned over the city in the Middle Ages and built a castle ( Château des Adhémar ) which dominates the city silhouette even today. The local nougat is one of
32-576: Is - o (like in Italian, Catalan, Castilian, and Portuguese, but also in Piemontese, which is neighboring): parlo for parli or parle ("io parlo"), parlavo for parlavi or parlave ("io parlavo"), parlèro for parlèri or parlère ("io ho parlato, io parlavo"). A common trait is the rhotacism of l (shift from l to r): In the dialects of the Alps, Vivaro-Alpine maintained the pronunciation of
40-598: Is now clearly recognized as a dialect of its own. The UNESCO Atlas of World's languages in danger uses the Alpine Provençal name, and considers it as seriously endangered. Glottolog recognizes the Gardiòl variety of the dialect as a distinct language within the Occitanic language family. Vivaro-Alpine is classified as an Indo-European, Italic, Romance, or Western-Romance language. Vivaro-Alpine shares
48-424: The r of the infinitive verbs (excepting modern Occitan). An estimated 70% of languages are estimated to have "interrogative intonation contours which end with rising pitch." However, Vivaro Alpine follows the opposite pattern with yes/no questions—an initial high tone followed by a fall. Questions that end in a rising pitch are so common that they are often considered "natural." One reason that questions begin with
56-746: The 13 desserts of Provence and highly appreciated throughout the country. Montelimar nougat is mentioned in the opening lines of the Beatles ' " Savoy Truffle " from The White Album . Travellers used to buy nougat de Montélimar on their way to the south of France (or when returning) as the city is next to the Rhône and to the primary route N7 . Since the construction of the A7 autoroute , many nougat factories have been forced to close as tourists no longer stop in Montélimar but bypass it instead. Montélimar has
64-399: The palatization of consonants k and g in front of a with the other varieties of North Occitan (Limosino, Alverniate), in particular with words such as chantar ("cantare," to sing) and jai ("ghiandaia," jay). Southern Occitan has, respectively, cantar and gai. Its principal characteristic is the dropping of simple Latin dental intervocalics: The verbal ending of the first person
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