Provençal dialect
Franco-Provençal's name would suggest it is a bridge dialect between French and the Provençal dialect of Occitan. Franco-Provençal is a separate Gallo-Romance language that transitions into the Oïl languages Morvandiau and Franc-Comtois to the northwest, into Romansh to the east, into the Gallo-Italic Piemontese to the southeast, and finally into the Vivaro-Alpine dialect of Occitan to the southwest.