Picard language

Picard is a Romance language spoken in the north of France and in the south of Belgium. It is one of the langues d'oïl. The language is often called ch'ti or ch'timi in most of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Rouchi near Valenciennes, Roubaignot near Roubaix and "patois" in Picardy, as well as "Picard" everywhere.
In 1998, there were around 700,000 people who spoke Picard as a first language.