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Welche is a Gallo-Romance dialect of Alsace.^[1] A Lorrain dialect, it is closely related to French by the Oïl group. Its varieties include those of Bruche, Villé, Lièpvre, Kaysersberg and Orbey.

The name Welche is a French spelling of Welsh, a word from Germanic languages such as English, used originally to refer to Celtic speakers such as the Welsh, and later to Latin speakers after Latin was imposed on the Celts. The word Welsh was adopted in Latin dialects (such as French) to refer exclusively to other Latin dialects (such as Welche). Welche, Welsh and English are all distantly related through the Indo-European group and language-mixing.

Look up Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walhaz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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• "Patois du Ban de la Roche". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2025-03-02. - variety of Ban de la Roche
• "Le Patois Welche à Lapoutroie". www.lapoutroie.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2025-03-02. (in French)
• "GLOSSAIRE WELSCHE - HAUT FRANCAIS". badonpierre.free.fr. Retrieved 2025-03-02.

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