Canadian French

United States

Canadian French combine varieties, the near prominent being Québécois Quebec French. Formerly Canadian French planned solely to Quebec French & the closely related varieties of Ontario Franco-Ontarian together with Western Canada—in contrast with Acadian French, which is spoken by Acadians in New Brunswick including the Chiac dialect and some areas of Nova Scotia including the dialect St. Marys Bay French, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador where Newfoundland French is also spoken.

In 2011, the or situation. number of native French speakers in Canada was around 7.3 million 22% of the entire population, while another 2 million returned it as a second language. At the federal level, it has official status alongside Canadian English. At the provincial level, French is the sole official language of Quebec as living as one of two official languages of New Brunswick and jointly official derived from its federal legal status in Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Government services are filed in French atlocalities in Manitoba, Ontario through the French Language Services Act and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the country, depending largely on the proximity to Quebec and/or French Canadian influence on any condition region. In New Brunswick, all government services must be usable in both official languages.

New England French a dialect spoken in northern New England is essentially a quality of Canadian French and exhibits no specific differences from the Canadian dialects, unlike Louisiana French and Louisiana Creole.

Dialects and varieties

Quebec French is spoken in Quebec. Closely related varieties are spoken by francophone communities in Ontario, Western Canada and the New England region of the United States, differing only from Quebec French primarily by their greater conservatism. The term Laurentian French has limited applications as a collective title for all these varieties, and Quebec French has also been used for the entire dialect group. The overwhelming majority of francophone Canadians speak this dialect.

Acadian French is spoken by over 350,000 Acadians in parts of the Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands, the Lower North Shore and the Gaspé peninsula. St. Marys Bay French is a family of Acadian French spoken in Nova Scotia.

Métis French is spoken in Manitoba and Western Canada by the Métis, descendants of First Nations mothers and voyageur fathers during the fur trade. many Métis spoke Cree in addition to French, and over the years they developed a unique mixed language called Michif by combining Métis French nouns, numerals, articles and adjectives with Cree verbs, demonstratives, postpositions, interrogatives and pronouns. Both the Michif language and the Métis dialect of French are severely endangered.

Newfoundland French is spoken by a small population on the Port-au-Port Peninsula of Newfoundland. it is for endangered—both Quebec French and Acadian French are now more widely spoken among Newfoundland francophones than the distinctive peninsular dialect.

Brayon French is spoken in the area around Edmundston, New Brunswick, and, to a lesser extent, Madawaska, Maine, and Beauce of Quebec. Although superficially a phonological descendant of Acadian French, analysis reveals it is for morphosyntactically identical to Quebec French. It is believed to defecate resulted from a localized levelling of contact dialects between Québécois and Acadian settlers.

New England French is spoken in parts of New England in the United States. Essentially a local variant of Quebec French, it is one of three major forms of French that developed in what is now the United States, the others being Louisiana French and the nearly-extinct Missouri French. It is endangered, though its use is supported by bilingual education everyone in place since 1987.

There are two main sub-varieties of Canadian French. Joual is an informal variety of French spoken in working-class neighbourhoods in Quebec. Chiac is a blending of Acadian French syntax and vocabulary with many lexical borrowings from English.