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Newfoundland French

Index Newfoundland French

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47 relations: Acadian French, Acadians, Basques, Black Duck Brook and Winterhouse, Newfoundland and Labrador, Breton language, Bretons, Brittany, Canada, Canadian French, Cape Breton Island, Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador, Channel-Port aux Basques, Codroy Valley, Endangered language, Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, France, Franco-Newfoundlander, French language, French Shore, Gallo-Romance languages, Italic languages, Jules Ferry, Language death, Langues d'oïl, Linguistic typology, Lourdes, Newfoundland and Labrador, Magdalen Islands, Mainland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Mi'kmaq, Multilingualism, Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland English, Normandy, Normans, Port au Port Peninsula, Quebec French, Romance languages, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Seven Years' War, St. George's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador), Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, The Maritimes, Three Rock Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Utrecht, Variety (linguistics), Western Romance languages.

Acadian French

Acadian French (français acadien) is a dialect of Canadian French originally associated with the Acadian people of what is now the Canadian Maritimes.

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Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are the descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries, some of whom are also descended from the Indigenous peoples of the region.

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Basques

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Black Duck Brook and Winterhouse, Newfoundland and Labrador

Black Duck Brook and Winterhouse is a designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, consisting of the unincorporated fishing settlements of Black Duck Brook and Winterhouse on the Port au Port Peninsula.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Brittany.

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Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned) are a Celtic ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian French

Canadian French (français canadien) refers to a variety of dialects of the French language generally spoken in Canada.

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton—formerly Île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Breatainn; Unama'kik; or simply Cape Breton, Cape is Latin for "headland" and Breton is Latin for "British") is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Channel-Port aux Basques

Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait.

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Codroy Valley

The Codroy Valley is a valley in the southwestern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Endangered language

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language.

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Ernest Harmon Air Force Base

Ernest Harmon Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Franco-Newfoundlander

Franco-Newfoundlanders, also known as Franco-Terreneuvians in English or Franco-Terreneuviens in French, are francophone and/or French Canadian residents of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Shore

The French Shore, also called the Treaty Shore, resulted from the 1713 ratification of the Treaty of Utrecht.

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Gallo-Romance languages

The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes sensu stricto the French language, the Occitan language, and the Franco-Provençal language (Arpitan).

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Italic languages

The Italic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by Italic peoples.

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Jules Ferry

Jules François Camille Ferry (5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican.

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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Langues d'oïl

The langues d'oïl (French) or oïl languages (also in langues d'oui) are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest autochthonous relatives historically spoken in the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands.

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Linguistic typology

Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features.

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Lourdes, Newfoundland and Labrador

Lourdes is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Magdalen Islands

The Magdalen Islands (les Îles de la Madeleine) are a small archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with a land area of.

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Mainland, Newfoundland and Labrador

Mainland (known in French as La Grand'Terre) is a community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the western shore of the Port au Port Peninsula approximately 50 kilometers from the Stephenville International Airport.

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Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq or Mi'gmaq (also Micmac, L'nu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw) are a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland English

Newfoundland English is a name for several accents and dialects of Atlantic Canadian English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Port au Port Peninsula

The Port au Port Peninsula (Péninsule de Port-au-Port, Mi'kmaq: Kitpu) is a peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Quebec French

Québec French (français québécois; also known as Québécois French or simply Québécois) is the predominant variety of the French language in Canada, in its formal and informal registers.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Collectivité d'Outre-mer de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.

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St. George's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)

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Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

Stephenville (Canada 2011 Census population 6,719) is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces (Provinces maritimes) or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (PEI).

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Three Rock Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador

Three Rock Cove is a village located northwest of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

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Treaty of Utrecht

The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, is a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713.

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Variety (linguistics)

In sociolinguistics a variety, also called a lect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.

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Western Romance languages

Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini line.

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French language in Newfoundland.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_French

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