Related Language/Dialect Links

Liens concernant des langues et dialectes apparentés à l'Ancien Français

For the student of Old French, the regional dialects of modern French are extremely interesting and revealing. While they are sometimes a source of words and constructions which have disappeared from the modern standard variety, they offer, more importantly, alternative views of the phonetic processes that affected all of what would become France, particularly the Langue D'Oïl varieties of the North. In other words, processes that were completed in the Parisian dialect (later known as Francien), may not have done so in other dialects, and vice-versa. These dialects are often glimpses across time, linguistically speaking, and understanding their current state helps us to understand Old French and the development of its modern form.

Lexilogos. Has a fantastic map of French dialect areas, which is clickable and links to extensive lists of related dialect links. A magnificent resource.

Languages of France, from Wikipedia. Includes the lexilogos map (above) of France's language/dialect areas.

French dialects and minority languages. Prepared by Tennessesee Bob Peckham. Very useful collection of links.

WALLOON

Walloon Language Page.

A Walloon Grammar

PICARD

Le Picard sur Internet. Great information about Picard.

Min Waip: A server dedicated to the dialects of the North of France A Picard site.

NORMAN FRENCH

La Langue Normande Information about this dialect of French.

GALLO

Institut d’Études Britto-Romanes

http://www.bertaeyn-galeizz.com/

http://www.a-demorr.ht.st/

JERSEY FRENCH

Société Jersiaise . Information (in French) about the Jersey French language.

GUERNSEY FRENCH

The Guernsey Language. Interesting information about this dialect of French

MAYENNAIS

Une leçon comique de parler mayennais. Comical perhaps, but also linguistically interesting.

POITEVIN

The Dialect of Poitevin-Saintonge Interesting page devoted to the dialect that was the principle source of ACADIAN (and subsequently, Cajun) French in North America.

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