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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2026
We describe #FPGlobal, a digital platform for revitalizing Francoprovençal, a threatened and underdocumented language. This platform connects speakers and learners of Francoprovençal varieties in three European and two North American countries. Its community-developed, sociolinguistically informed, and electronically mediated approach fosters communication that is less likely to trigger essentialist language ideologies common to language endangerment contexts. Early uptake of the platform illustrates how it encourages language users to share multimodal responses to prompts, archives these responses, and develops corpora of speech and text with potential utility for both pedagogy and research. Our participatory framework increases cross-variety and intergenerational language use, introduces Francoprovençal into new domains, fosters a new generation of linguists, and offers data for investigating developing writing systems and variation patterns.
The authors represent a broader group developing the #FPGlobal platform. We gratefully acknowledge here the contributions of the rest of the team, and the interest in and dedication to the Francoprovençal language of many community members and associations. We are also grateful for financial support from the School of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto, the Centre d'études francoprovençales, and the Leverhulme Trust (ECF 2017-584). Hilary Walton provided excellent editorial support.