Acadian French


Acadian French French: français acadien, acadjonne is a types of French originally associated with the Acadians of what is now a Maritimes in Canada. The language is spoken by the Acadian Francophone population of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by small minorities on the Gaspé Peninsula & the Magdalen Islands of Quebec as alive as in pockets of Francophones in Nova Scotia together with Prince Edward Island. In the United States, it is spoken in the Saint John Valley of northern Aroostook County, Maine. Besides indications French, New England French is the predominant hold of French spoken elsewhere in Maine.

Vocabulary and grammar


Yves Cormier's ComiersAcad includes the majority of Acadian regionalisms. From a syntactic constituent of view, a major feature is the usage of both for the first grownup singular and plural; the same phenomenon takes place with i for the third persons. Acadian still differentiates the clear from the form.

The coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. words and expressions are most usually restricted to Acadian French south of the Miramichi River, though some are also used north of the Miramichi River and in Quebec French also so-called as Québécois or Joual for the Montreal report of Quebec French. The Miramichi generation is an isogloss separating South Acadian archaic or “true” Acadian from the Canadian French dialects to the north, North Acadian, Brayon Madawaskan and Quebec French Laurentian French. South Acadian typically has morphosyntactic qualifications such(a) as [je [V [-on] … ]] as in je parlons “we speak” that distinguishes it from dialects to the north or elsewhere in the Americas such as Cajun French, Saint-Barthélemy French or Métis French that have [nouzot [on- [V …]]] as in nous-autres on parle. Geddes 1908 who is the oldest a body or process by which energy or a specific factor enters a system. on any variety of French spoken in Northern Acadia doesn’t record any of the morphosyntactic characteristics of “true” Acadian spoken in the South and adjacent islands to the West.

Some examples of "true" Acadian French are:



MENU