page_title: Auvergnat
section_title: Geographical distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Auvergnat / Geographical distribution
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Isoglosses de délimitation de l'auvergnat
context_page_description: Auvergnat or Occitan auvergnat is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in southern France, in particular in the eponymous administrative region of Auvergne.
  Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, there is no real consensus on the structural nature of Auvergnat. It is generally classified as a dialect of Occitan but a minority of linguists and academics consider it a closely related Romance language under heavy Occitan influence in its own right. With around 80,000 speakers in the Auvergne region at the beginning of the 21st century, it appears to be seriously threatened.
context_section_description: The effective borders of Auvergnat do not completely coincide with those of the current Region of Auvergne or the historical region of Auvergne but can be described as follows:
  The entire département of the Puy-de-Dôme
  a large section of the département of Cantal, largely centered on Saint-Flour and Mauriac. Aurillac and the Pierrefort Canton speak a dialect called carladézien, a form of languedocien, with Auvergnat conjugations and the rest largely similar to standard languedocien.
  The larger portion of the Haute-Loire aside Yssingeaux which speaks Vivaro-Alpine,
  the southern half of Allier, or the Bourbonnais province, near Montluçon and Vichy, with the northern half toward Moulins traditionally speaking French.
  A large fringe of eastern Limousin, in the département of Corrèze, near Ussel and Bort-les-Orgues. This is a transition zone between Auvergnat and Limousin
  The communities of Noirétable and La Chamba in the western side of the département of Loire.
caption: Auvergnat dialect delimitation
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