| Fernand Carton | |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Roubaix, France |
| Death Place: | Malzéville, France |
| Sub Discipline: | Picard language |
| Discipline: | Linguist |
Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects.[1]
After passing the Agrégation de Lettres classiques exams in 1958,[2] Carton published numerous articles in the field of phonetics. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[3] and President of the Language Sciences section of the national committee of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He also served as President of Nancy 2 University and University of Lorraine. He published a linguistic atlas of the Picard language,[4] and adapted the Feller-Carton dialect transcription system.[5]