page_title: Jèrriais
section_title: Influence of French
hierarchical_section_title: Jèrriais / Vocabulary / Influence of French
caption_attribution_description: Road name sign of Rue de la Pouclée et des Quatre Chemins, longest road name in Jersey Photo taken by Man vyi with Canon PowerShot A40 on 15/7/2005
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: A large number of gallicisms have been introduced into the language due to the use of French as an official language and the cultural influence of France and French literature. Some French words have displaced in modern usage Jèrriais words that can still be found in older texts from the 18th and 19th centuries, for example:
  French leçon (in the form léçon) has displaced native lichon (lesson)
  French garçon has displaced native hardé (boy)
  French chanson has displaced native canchon (song)
  Efforts are being made to maintain some Jèrriais words which are competing in usage with French forms, for example:
  native hielle is being promoted over French huile (oil)
  native huiptante (eighty) is being promoted over French quatre-vingts (fourscore)
caption: In this road sign, mostly in French, the word pouclée is Jèrriais for dolmen
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