ACADIAN FRENCH LANGUAGE

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Acadian French is a variety of French spoken by Acadians, mostly in the region of Acadia, Canada. While the French were settling into Canada and other parts of North America, they brought their language with them and eventually came to inhabit a region of Canada known as Acadie, or Acadia. Originally, the region only comprised Nova Scotia but grew to become bigger as the French influence spread.

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[RDWillett]

As a descendant of Acadian French from New Brunswick, i feel that this vid shoulda added Aroostook County, ME, as another place Acadian is spoken. Im from Aroostook County and there's a large population of French speakers here, especially the border towns of Ft. Kent, St.Francis, Madawaska, Van Buren, Limestone, and Ft. Fairfield. Acadian is a beautiful language and is one i as a descendant of Acadians would love to learn.

[kazekokonaya]

It makes sense now why the accents in Louisiana sound the way they do. This sounds very much like someone from the southern US speaking French with a rather thick accent. Maybe this is also similar to what a thick southern US accent sounds like to a non-native speaker. Very interesting!

[watchmakerful]

It's still French, but it shares an unexpected feature with Spanish: replacement of the [ʒ] sound with [h].

[ReiKakariki]

The beauty of Acadian French and that it integrates Celtic, Germanic, Occitania and Amerindian phonology into a single mosaic.
Acadian re-echoes the sounds of Gaulish, Burgundian, Rhineland and Breton and Occitan.
The vowel and consonant phonetic range recalls the very calm speech of Southern Michiffs and Northem Cajuns.
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[tibsky]

Even as a Frenchman, it's easier to understand by reading than by listening.

[makarafap]

Greetings from Canada!!! 🇨🇦 My great grandma's family was Acadian, so it's nice to hear one of my ancestral languages in one of your videos!!!

[marin]

Sounds very close to the Berrichon patois I was speaking in the 50s in Center France (Berry). All those juicy diphtongues have totally disappeared in Modern French.

[jcd]

I live in Charente-Maritime, near La Rochelle. When I listen old people from country, especially in Saintonge, I can hear same nouns an and the way to pronounce the ch ( from chaud, for example), the dialect here is le Poitevin Saintongeais. Many migrants from this Saintonge, Aunis and Poitou sailed to Québec.

[easmsagentandjapanrailwaysfan]

Oddly enough, Louisiana shares the same identity with Acadian French. They call it *_Cajun French_* and it still retains the retroflex "r". But the vocabulary of Cajun French mostly uses the Modern French vocabulary but comprises of Acadian French vocabulary (thanks to, of course, the Acadians!), so we share quite a similarity to Acadian French.

[yankldoodl]

As someone who grew up speaking french (second llanguage immersion) in eastern Canada and who lives in Nova Scotia and has had plenty of interactions with Acadians, this is not what I am used to hearing. The Acadian french dialect is very distinct, and very english influenced, but this person seems to be closely reading a standard orthography that kind of mimics the accent rather than speaking naturally. Also the text is in pure french, but the Chiac (New-Brunswick Acadian) that I am used to hearing tends to incorporate a lot of english words and phrases.

[rendeenar.]

Nice, this is another very interesting dialect that I've never heard of. I was wondering, if you can, a next time could you make some videos about the Arctic indigenous languages? (I love very much the Inuit writing system in particular, it seems very ancient and cryptic).
Saluti dall'Italia. ^^

[NezuChan]

Vive l'acadie! J'suis a motié cajien moi. Du coté de ma mère. Pour l'experience acadienne, visite le Pays de la Saguine en Bouctouche, Nouveau Brunswick. Venez nous ouere!

[dalubwikaan]

As a person who is studying french for only one week, i wont even notice this is still French at all.

[mgplayzxd]

Strangely enough it, sounds like a Afrikaaner was speaking French

[adnyc]

Interesting that it retains the flapped r and also has a retroflex r like in English.

[jackcheng]

Wow I'm Canadian and didn't know this dialect was so different from even Quebecois. Sounds like a cowboy tries to speak French.

[CarlDoucet-jmkq]

I am acadian from caraquet witch is the acadian capital and we are speak better french but every people over here understand very well th🎉e way my grand mother speak to me❤ y fe frette icitte mais jmabille chaud❤

[gabriezoid]

sounds like if a cowboy read french out loud

[_juan.joao_]

Sounds like a drunken Dutch trying to speak french :)

[paulochon]

What a shame Le Grand Dérangement happened. This genocide nearly destroyed Acadian culture in the maritime provinces of canada and parts of "new england"... Fortunately this culture survived the genocide and is still alive today !