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Guernésiais language


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    • Auregnais language
    • Dgèrnésiais language
    • Guernsey French language
    • Jèrriais language
    • Jersey French language
    • Jersey Norman language
    • Jersiais language
    • Norman French language
    • Normand language
    • Normaund language
    • Sercquiais language
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    • found: Work cat: A glossary of the Norman language in the Channel Islands, 2022:p. xi (Insular Norman, the Norman language as spoken in the Channel Islands: Guernésiais (Guernsey), Jèrriais (Jersey), Sercquiais (Sark), and Auregnais (Alderney)) p. xv (the first part is organized by the English headword followed by one or more of its Insular Norman equivalents in the order Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Sercquiais, and Auregnais) p. xviii (the second part is a Guernésiais-to-English dictionary) (DLC)2020415684
    • found: Ethnologue online, May 10, 2022:Guernésiais (a language of Guernsey; also spoken on Jersey and in France; alternate names: Guernsey French, Norman French, Normand, Normaund, Jèrriais, Jersey French, Jersey Norman; autonym: Dgernesiais; spoken on Guernsey, Alderney, Herm, and Sark Islands; Auregniais was a dialect once spoken on Alderney; classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French)
    • found: The Islands of Guernsey website, May 10, 2022:(traditional native language of Guernsey is Guernesiais; also known as Guernsey French; often thought a corrupted form of French, Guernesiais is much older than standard French, and is considered to be more a cousin of it; in fact a variety of Norman; Norman evolved over time into the distinct local Guernsey language; in Sark, there is a dialect of Jèrriais called Sercquiais; Jèrriais is another Norman French dialect spoken on Jersey; Auregnais was spoken on Alderney, but is now extinct)
    • found: Endangered Languages Project website, May 10, 2022:(Guernésiais language: Considered by some to be an outlying dialect of Norman; aka Dgèrnésiais, Guernsey French; Jèrriais language: Considered by some to be an outlying dialect of Norman; aka Guernésiais, Jersey French, Jersiais, Jersey Norman, Guernsey French)
  • History Notes

    • [Established September 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-05-10: new
    • 2022-09-07: revised
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