[4][5][6] Most residents of Nice and its region no longer speak Niçard, and the very few[quantify] who do are fully bilingual in French as Nissard has lost its function of a vernacular language decades ago.

Niçard is written using two forms: An Italian orthography was abandoned when Nice joined the French Empire in 1861.

Niçard shares some phonetical archaisms with Occitan areas as distant as Aranese, which is also using proparoxytone words.

[7] Regional differences are broadly accepted by linguists and French national education authorities in Occitan.

Domergue Sumien defined in his PhD thesis[8] Occitan as a pluricentric language, and included Niçard among the seven regional standards to be taught.