This is the first I have ever heard of the Arpitan language.
This segment is the Evolénard dialect spoken in the Valais
region of Switzerland. This language sounds completely strange
to me. Every now and then, it sounds something like French, but
mostly it’s just sui generis. I could not pick up one word of
this. Arpitan split from proto-langue d’oil around 800-900. This
is really the intermediate langue between North Gallo-Romance
and South Gallo-Romance. What is Gallo-Romance? Gallo-Romance is
that branch of Romance that is derived from the Vulgar Latin
that arose from Gaullic speaking regions. The north went to the
langues d’oil and French. Langues d’oil started to split around
900 or so. The south went to Rhaetian in the Alps -Romansch and
Ladin and the Gallo-Romance languages of northern Italy. It is
true – the Italian languages of northern Italy are closer to
French than they are to Italian. Arpitan is said to retain a
strong resemblance to Latin itself – it is very archaic.