Introduction: this is an introductory lesson about dialects.
spread of Picard (Picard, Chti, Rouchi, ...)
Picard is a language of the group of Romance languages.
Dialects are linguistic varieties which are defined by specific phonetic, morphological and lexical traits and sometimes by a distinctive literary tradition.
The dialects are geografical variéties of the picard language. In each dialect, we have microdialects ( patoés, parlés, ... ). In general, the different varieties spoken are understood by speakers of different regions.