140 : 22 seq. See the authorities quoted in Ripley, chap. VII. For the Walloons see Rice Holmes, 2, pp. 323–325, 334; Deniker, 2, p. 335; D’Arbois de Jubainville, 2, pp. 87–95; G. Kurth, La frontière linguistique en Belgique; L. Funel, Les parlers populaires du département des Alpes-Maritimes, pp. 298–303.
The dialects or patois spoken to-day in France all fall under one of these two languages. They can be classified as follows:
| LANGUE D’OC | |
|---|---|
| Patois | Spoken in the Departments of |
| Languedocian | Gard, Hérault, Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aveyron, Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne. |
| Provençal | Drôme, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes- and Basses-Alpes, Var. |
| Dauphinois | Isère. |
| Lyonnais | Rhône, Ain, Saône-et-Loire. |
| Auvergnat | Allier, Loire, Haute-Loire, Ardèche, Lozère, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal. |
| Limousin | Corrèze, Haute-Vienne, Creuse, Indre, Cher, Vienne, Dordogne, Charente, Charente-Inférieure, Indre-et-Loire. |
| Gascon | Gironde, Landes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Basses-Pyrénées, Gers. |
| LANGUE D’OÏL | |
| Norman | Normandie, Bretagne, Perche, Maine, Anjou, Poitou, Saintonge. |
| Picard (modern French) | Picardie, Île-de-France, Artois, Flandre, Hainault, Basse Maine, Thiérache, Rethelois. |
| Burgundian | Nivernais, Berry, Orléanais, lower Bourbonnais, part of Ile-de-France, Champagne, Lorraine, Franche-Comté. |
140 : 28 seq. For the distribution of the Alpines see Ripley, p. 157.
141 : 6. Austria and the Slavs. See Ripley’s authorities mentioned on pp. 352 seq.
141 : 9. See p. 143 of this book.
141 : 13. See the notes to chap. IX.
141 : 23–142: 4. Introduction of the Slavs into eastern Germany. See Jordanes, History of the Goths, V, 34, 35, and XXIII, 119; Freeman, Historical Geography of Europe, pp. 113 seq.
141 : 25. Wends, Antes and Sclaveni. See the notes to p. 143 : 13 seq.
142 : 4. Haddon, 3, p. 43.