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Jèrriais
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jersey French, Jerriais, jer, nrf-je
thumb| teacher Ben Spink speaks and tells the words of the song by Frank Le Maistre. ' ( ; also known as the Jersey language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French' in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands archipelago off the coast of France. Its closest relatives are the other Norman languages, such as , spoken in neighbouring Guernsey, and the other .
Key facts
- Language.states
- Jersey and Sark
- Language.date
- 2011 census <!--
- Language.ref
- e18 -->
- Language.speakers2
- L2 speakers of Jersey and Guernsey
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic
- Language.fam3
- Latino-Faliscan
- Language.fam4
- Latinic
- Language.fam5
- Romance
- Language.fam6
- Italo-Western
- Language.fam7
- Western
- Language.fam8
- Gallo-Iberian?
- Language.fam9
- Gallo-Romance
- Language.fam10
- Gallo-Rhaetian?
- Language.fam11
- Arpitan–Oïl
- Language.fam12
- Oïl
- Language.fam13
- Frankish zone
- Language.fam14
- Northern Norman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
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- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2874
- language regulatory body
- Société Jersiaise
- Commons gallery
- Jèrriais
- Commons category
- Jèrriais
- indigenous to
- Jersey
- topic's main category
- Category:Jèrriais
- native label
- Jèrriais
- dialect of
- Norman
- Wikimedia language code
- nrf-je
- has grammatical gender
- feminine
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- History
- Dictionaries
- Status
- Phonology
- Palatalisation
- Dental fricative
- Length
- Orthography
- Grammar
- Verbs
- Aspect
- Iterative
- Gerunds
- Vocabulary
- Influence of Norse
- Influence of Breton
- Influence of French
- Influence of English
- Literature
- Examples
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Literature
- External links
thumb| teacher Ben Spink speaks and tells the words of the song by Frank Le Maistre. ' ( ; also known as the Jersey language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French' in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands archipelago off the coast of France. Its closest relatives are the other Norman languages, such as , spoken in neighbouring Guernsey, and the other .
Use of has been in decline over the past century, as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration on Jersey. 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. Efforts are being made to keep the language alive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jèrriais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.