Talk:Acadian French

message: A dialect/variety is not close to become a language even if sometimes it is not understandable. Wikipedia is being used by people with some ideas that are incorrect and full of POV. Please correct if this is really a language and not a variety. Maybe some pride Americans... -Pedro 11:35, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: dialect/variety

message: I removed the bit about alveolar R. Most Acadians actually use the uvular R, as in France. Only a few villages might use alveolar.
--142.166.97.102 18:26, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: removed

message: I would just like to state that Acadian French is not derived from Cajun, but rather vice versa. Cajuns are the direct descendants of Acadians deported during the "Grande Dérangement".  The name 'Cajun' is actually a derivative of the French word 'Acadien', which is pronounced by Acadians as 'A-ca-jeune'.
: and acadians are not derived from cajuns, but rather vice versa. Gringo300 04:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: vice versa

message: How healthy is Acadian French? (speakers, ages etc.) —Felix the Cassowary (ɑe hɪː jɐ) 06:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That is the question that emmerged to me too. — Slavik IVANOV 11:35, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: health

message: L'Acadien pour l'amour de l'acadien
The intro paragraphs to this article seem to belong more to armchair linguistics than anything else. They lack structure and contain more conjecture and opinion than fact, if any.
I suggest a basic who-what-when-where-how-why approach that does NOT constantly compare AF to other dialects/varieties/languages. Not only are the intelligibility and archaism issues annoying, they are disinformative. CJ Withers 22:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AF for the sake of AF

message: Does anyone actually say this? I've always said <I>ouin</I>.
<I>ouin</I> is also used in the province of Quebec... <I>ouâille</I> is  common in the North-East part of New-Brunswick.
:My boyfriend is from near Bathurst and I spend a lot of time up there... my experience is that people say (and write) ouais or ouan. Actually, I think that the effects of education and a generation of exposure to French television from Quebec is eroding the distinctiveness of Acadian French... like the relationship between Newfoundland English and standard Canadian English, I see it heading towards being just a somewhat accented variant of standard Quebec French. In a lot of ways I think you can get more useful information about the way Acadians actually speak from the Quebec French article than from the Acadian French one.
:I corrected "pi" to "pis" in the word list... everyone I've ever seen writes it as "pis", and that reflects the origin as well.
:--Steve D (talk) 12:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ouâille? 

message: Many speakers of other dialects of French, such as speakers of Metropolitan French, i.e. the French of France, and even of other Canadian dialects, have difficulty understanding Acadian French.
Would we write on a Canadian English article page that most speakers of RP or any other British English dialect would have difficulty understanding Canadian English? This seems odd to me.DDD DDD 07:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  difficulty understanding? 

message: This article mentions that Acadien descends from Anjou and Poitou dialects, and so I'm wondering if its similarities with Norman are simple coincidence, or evidence of some relation, as well.
Examples:
*"tch" and "dg" are common in similar places in Acadien and Norman, and r's seem to drop off regularly in similar contexts in some Norman dialects.
*"asteure" is comparable to "à ch't heu" in Jèrriais (a Norman dialect)
*"itou" is identical to Cotentinais "itou" and similar to Jèrriais "étout"
*"mitan" is the exact same in Jèrriais.
There are perhaps other examples.  The Jade Knight 06:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarities with Norman? 

message: Is there such thing as Acadian English (as opposed to CAJUN English)? Gringo300 02:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Acadian English?

message: Acadian French derives loosely from late Middle French still widespread in a few French provinces (mainly: Maine, Anjou, Poitou, Saintonge, Aunis, Angoumois and more specifically Jersey) at the time of the French colonization of the Americas
Wouldn't the Jersey dialect technically be a dialect of Middle Norman rather than Middle French?
Prof Wrong (talk) 20:00, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jersey...? 

message: From the article:
:Like Quebec French, it is a variant of Canadian French.
Ok, so the label "Canadian French" exists and is in common use, but to me this is a misleading statement.  "Canadian French" is an umbrella term, a geographical label.  Written this way, it seems to imply a divergent evolution that occurred within Canada, whereas the three main Francophone areas of Canada evolved their dialects independently, starting from different dialect brought in from l'Hexagone... Prof Wrong (talk) 15:28, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  And?  My opinion is that the current wording makes the article unclear.  Do you disagree?  Prof Wrong (talk) 16:01, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian French...? 

message: This article is a mess. The paragraphs about the linguistic characteristics are quite disorderly and contain several errors. I could do something about it, but since I have no specific knowledge about Acadian, it would be great if someone else could help. --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 02:19, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, the German article on the subject is very fine. I'll consider translating it at some point unless someone else is faster. --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 02:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup needed

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message: Where does the IETF tag 'fr-u-sd-canb' come from? I've found no source at all for it, and strictly it’s not quite IETF, because the 'u' extension is defined and managed by the Unicode Consortium. --Neodimio (talk) 15:47, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
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