| Savoyard | |
| Nativename: | savoyârd |
| States: | France |
| Region: | Savoy |
| Speakers: | 35,000 |
| Date: | 1989 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Italic |
| Fam3: | Latino-Faliscan |
| Fam4: | Romance |
| Fam5: | Italo-Western |
| Fam6: | Western |
| Fam7: | Gallo-Romance |
| Fam8: | Franco-Provençal |
| Nation: | Franco-Provençal protected by statute in Italy |
| Agency: | Institut de la langue savoyarde |
| Script: | Latin |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | savo1253 |
| Glottorefname: | Savoyard |
| Map: | Map-Savoyard language01.png |
Savoyard is a Franco-Provençal dialect of the Gallo-Romance family. It is spoken in some territories of the historical Duchy of Savoy, nowadays a geographic area spanning Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France and the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It has around 35,000 speakers today.
Several subdialects of Savoyard exist that exhibit unique features in terms of phonetics and vocabulary. This includes many words that have to do with the weather: bacan (French: temps mauvais); coussie (French: tempête); royé (French: averse); ni[v]ole (French: nuage); ...and, the environment: clapia, perrier (French: éboulis); égra (French: sorte d'escalier de pierre); balme (French: grotte); tova (French: tourbière); and lanche (French: champ en pente).
Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at the Centre de dialectologie of the Stendhal University, Grenoble, currently under the direction of Michel Contini.