page_title: Jèrriais
section_title: Palatalisation
hierarchical_section_title: Jèrriais / Phonology / Palatalisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Jersey Nrf: Jèrri
context_page_description: Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France. It has been in decline over the past century as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration. There are very few people who speak Jèrriais as a mother tongue and, owing to the age of the remaining speakers, their numbers decrease annually. Despite this, efforts are being made to keep the language alive.
  A similar language, Guernésiais, is spoken in neighbouring Guernsey. The language of Sark, Sercquiais, is a descendant of the Jèrriais brought by the Jersey colonists who settled Sark in the 16th century; and there is mutual intelligibility with the Norman language of mainland Normandy.
  Jèrriais is often called "Jersey French" or "Jersey Norman French" in English and "jersiais" or "normand de Jersey" in French. Jèrriais is distinct from the Jersey Legal French used for legal contracts, laws and official documents by the government and administration of Jersey. For this reason, some prefer using the term "Jersey Norman" to avoid ambiguity and to dissociate the language from standard French.
context_section_description: The palatalisation of Latin /k/ and /ɡ/ before /a/ that occurred in the development of French did not occur in northern dialects of Norman, including Jèrriais:
  However the palatalisation of /k/ before front vowel produced different results in the Norman dialect that developed into Jèrriais than in French. (Many developments are similar to those in Italian, cf. cento-hundred and faccia-face).
  At a later date surviving /k/ and /ɡ/ underwent a secondary process of palatalisation:
  This palatalisation continues to operate (except in initial position) as can be seen by recent borrowings from English:
caption: La Rue au Tchian (road of the dog): Latin canem (dog) developed into tchian, an example of the palatalisation of /k/
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