Alpine languages

The languages spoken today in the Alps are:

• German dialects

• Swiss German
• Bavarian

• Romance languages

• Gallo-Romance

• French
• Franco-Provençal
• Occitan

• Rhaeto-Romance

• Rumansch
• Ladin
• Friulian

• Italian

• South Slavic languages

• Slovenian

Known extinct languages of the Alps are:

• Continental Celtic

• Gaulish
• Lepontic
• Noric

• Raetic (probably related to Etruscan)

Unlike the Caucasus, the Alps do not have surviving indigenous non-Indo-European languages. In the League of Lost Languages, however, we have taken the liberty to invent such non-Indo-European languages, see Palaeo-Alpine languages.