Although often seen as a medieval rival to French, Picard has received far less official recognition and support than more celebrated regional languages such as Breton or Occitan. A shared history and high degree of linguistic similarity with the national language appear to have engendered a perception that it is simply ‘bad French’, but for supporters such Eloy (1997) Picard remains potentiellement une vraie langue, worthy and in need of status enhancement initiatives enjoyed by other regional languages. Promotion of language status for Picard, however, is found to be fraught with practical difficulties, not least of which are a lack of territorial unity and major cultural differences between the north and south of the picardophone area. Equally importantly, the discourse of languagehood fosters notions of linguistic purity which ignore the extensive mixing of local, supralocal and national elements that has always been evident in Picard writing and speech. This in turn engenders linguistic insecurity, notably among urban working-class speakers, whose speech can all too easily be caricatured as both ‘bad French’ and ‘bad patois’, with obvious consequences for intergenerational transmission. The well-intentioned promotion of Picard as a regional language may therefore, perversely, be detrimental to the very varieties it serves.

中文翻译：

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Picard：地区语言中的一个恶意目标？

虽然经常被视为法语的中世纪竞争对手，但皮卡德得到的官方认可和支持远远少于布列塔尼语或奥克西唐语等更著名的地区语言。共同的历史和与本国语言的高度语言相似性似乎使人们认为它只是“糟糕的法语”，但对于 Eloy (1997) Picard 这样的支持者来说，仍然存在潜力无限的语言，值得并需要其他区域语言享有的地位提升举措。然而，提升皮卡德的语言地位却充满了实际困难，尤其是缺乏领土统一和皮卡多语地区南北之间的重大文化差异。同样重要的是，语言性话语促进了语言纯洁性的概念，这些概念忽略了地方、超地方和民族元素的广泛混合，这些元素在皮卡德的写作和演讲中一直很明显。这反过来又导致了语言上的不安全感，特别是在城市工人阶级的演讲者中，他们的演讲很容易被讽刺为“糟糕的法语”和“糟糕的方言”，对代际传播产生明显的影响。