Julie Auger, Indiana University, “Issues of authenticity, purity, and autonomy in minority languages: What is “real” Picard, and who is an “authentic” speaker?”, Congress Minority and Diasporic Languages of Europe , 14-17 Feb. 2003 , Berkeley, US, in Pawel Nowak & Corey Yoquelet (eds.), Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 29). * - in France: ca. 500 000 speakers [fr][1] - in Belgium : a rough approximation is about 12% to 15% of people in province of Hainaut, i.e. ca. 150 000 to 200 000 speakers.
