The Orléanais dialect is a
langue d'oïl
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that was part of a
dialect group called
Francien.
The dialect covers three departments, corresponding to the territory of
Orléanais, former province of the kingdom of
France
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:
Loir-et-Cher,
Loiret
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and
Eure-et-Loir
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progressively dissolved into a regional variant of
French.
References
French dialects
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