Romands are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to

Romandy Romandy (french: Romandie or )Before World War I, the term French Switzerland (french: Suisse française) waalso used german: Romandie or , it, Romandia, rm, Romanda) is the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 mil ...

, in western Switzerland. Traditionally they spoke Franco-Provençal, as well as Frainc-Comtou in Canton of Jura. Today these languages fell in disuse in favor of the standard

French language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in ...

. The Romands descend largely from the Gallo-Romans and the Burgundians. They are referred to by Swiss Germans as '' Welsche''.

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{{reflist Romance peoples Ethnic groups in Switzerland Swiss people Society of Switzerland