| Canadian French Français canadien |
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| Spoken in: | Canada (especially Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick), smaller numbers in New England | |
| Total speakers: | (mother tongue) 7 million in Canada[1] | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian Oïl French Canadian French |
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| Official language in: | Canada (as French) | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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| ISO 639-3: | fre | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec New Brunswick ( French: Nouveau-Brunswick /nuvobʁɔnzwik/ is one of Canada 's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Italic subfamily is a member of the Indo-European language family's Centum branch The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all Gallo-Romance languages Gallo-Italic languages Lombard Western Lombard Eastern The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French, Occitan, Arpitan, and several other languages spoken in modern France Langues d'oïl is the linguistic and historical designation of the Gallo-Romance languages originating from the northern territories of Roman Gaul, French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people This is a list of bodies that regulate Standard languages Natural languages Auxiliary languages Interlingua The auxiliary language ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Canadian French is an umbrella term for the varieties of the French language used in Canada. An umbrella term is a word that provides a Superset or grouping of related concepts also called a Hypernym. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page French is the mother tongue of about 7 million Canadians (22% of the Canadian population, compared to 58% for English),[2] and includes the following varieties:
- Quebec French is spoken in Quebec. A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth Quebec French ( le français québécois, le français du Québec) or less often Québécois French, is the predominant varieties Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Closely related varieties descended from it are spoken by francophone communities in Ontario, Western Canada, Labrador and even in the New England region of the United States, and differ primarily by their greater conservatism. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West, is a region of Canada normally including all parts of Canada west of the province Modern Labrador Just like its island neighbour Newfoundland early settlement in Labrador was tied to the sea as demonstrated by the Montagnais, Innu and History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The term Laurentian French has limited currency as an umbrella term for these varieties, and Quebec French, somewhat confusingly, is also used. The overwhelming majority of francophone Canadians use this dialect. The adjective francophone (alternately Francophone) means French -speaking typically as primary language whether referring to individuals groups or places
- Métis French spoken in Manitoba, North Dakota and adjacent areas, alongside with the related but distinct mixed language Michif. Métis French or Métis, along with Michif, is one of the traditional languages of the Métis people. Manitoba (English ˌmænɨˈtoʊbə French /manitoba/ is a province of Canada, spanning 647797 square kilometres (250116 sq mi of North America North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. A mixed language is a Language that arises through the fusion of two source languages normally in situations of thorough Bilingualism. Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is the Language of the Métis
- Bonaventure County French, also spoken in neighboring parts of Beauce-Appalaches and Madawaska, seems phonologically close to Acadian French but is morphosyntactically identical with Quebec and Métis French. Morphology is the field of Linguistics that studies the internal structure of words
- Acadian French is spoken by the Acadians in some parts of the Canadian Maritimes. Acadian French ( le français acadien) is a variety or Dialect of French spoken by Francophone Acadians in the This article is about the Acadian people and culture The Acadians (Acadiens are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French The Maritime provinces, called the Maritimes in local English (or the Canadian Maritimes by non-Canadians is a region of Eastern Canada It is the reputed ancestor of Cajun French though this is disputed since Cajun is closer to Quebec French and Métis French than it is to Acadian. See also [[Cajun]] Cajun French (sometimes called Louisiana Regional French) is one of three varieties or Dialects of the French language
- Newfoundland French is spoken by a limited population in Newfoundland. Newfoundland French is a regional dialect of French that was once spoken by French colonists on the island of Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador (ˈnuːfɨn(dlənd ən(d ˈlæbrəˌdɔr (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador is a province of Canada, the tenth and latest to join the Confederation It is an endangered dialect.
The term Canadian French was formerly used to refer specifically to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada descended from it. [3] This is presumably because Canada and Acadia were distinct parts of New France, and even British North America until 1867. However, the term Canadian French is now not usually felt to exclude Acadian French.
Phylogenetically, Québec French, Métis French and Bonaventure County French are representatives of koine French in the Americas whereas Acadian French and Newfoundland French are derivatives of non-koinesized local dialects in France. In Linguistics, a koiné language ( common language) is a Standard language or Dialect, that has arisen as a result of contact between two [4]
Notes
- ^ Source: 2006 Census of Canada Includes multiple responses.
- ^ Source: 2006 Census of Canada Includes multiple responses.
- ^ Francard and Latin, in Le régionalisme lexical, write: "Le français du Québec a rayonné en Ontario et dans l'ouest du Canada, de même qu'en Nouvelle-Angleterre. [. . . ] Le français québécois et le français acadien peuvent être regroupés sous l'appellation plus large de français canadien², laquelle englobe aussi le français ontarien et le français de l'Ouest canadien. Ces deux derniers possèdent des traits caractéristiques qui leur sont propres aujourd'hui dans l'ensemble canadien et qui s'expliquent surtout par un phénomène de conservatisme, mais il s'agit de variétés qui sont historiquement des prolongements du français québécois. " The footnote reads: "Il faut noter ici que le terme de français canadien avait autrefois un sens plus restreint, désignant le français du Québec et les variétés qui s'y rattachent directement, d'où l'emploi à cette époque de canadianisme pour parler d'un trait caractéristique du français du Québec. "
- ^ Robert Fournier & Henri Wittmann. 1995. Le français des Amériques. Trois-Rivières: Presses universitaires de Trois-Rivières.
See also
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