Toponyms
Other than in family names, the Franco-Provençal legacy primarily survives in place names. Many are immediately recognizable, ending in -az, -o(t)z, -uz, -ax, -ex, -ux, -oux, -oulx, -aulx, and -ieu(x). These suffixes indicate the stress syllables based on a historical orthographic system considered obsolete by modern scholars, such as Chenal, BREL, and Stich. The last letter is not pronounced. For multi-syllabic names, "z" indicates a paroxytone (stress on the next-to-last syllable), and "x" indicates an oxytone (stress on the last syllable), for example, Chanaz: /ˈʃɑ.nɑ/ (shana); Chênex: /ʃɛˈne/ (shèné). All the town names that demonstrates these characteristics follow:
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