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Norman French

Norman
Normaund
Native to

Previously used:

Region Normandy and the Channel Islands
Native speakers

ca. 100,000 (date missing)
* Auregnais: 0 (extinct)

Dialects
Latin (French orthography)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (partial: Guernésiais & Jèrriais)
Glottolog norm1245  (Norman)
Linguasphere 51-AAA-hc & 51-AAA-hd
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Areas where the Norman language is strongest include Jersey, Guernsey, the Cotentin and the Pays de Caux.

Previously used:

ca. 100,000 (date missing)
* Auregnais: 0 (extinct)

Norman (Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is a Romance language which can be classified as one of the Oïl languages along with Picard and Walloon. The name Norman-French is sometimes used to describe not only the Norman language, but also the administrative languages of Anglo-Norman and Law French used in England. For the most part, the written forms of Norman and modern French are intercomprehensible.

Norman is spoken in mainland Normandy in France where it has no official status, but is classed as a regional language. It is taught in a few colleges near Cherbourg-Octeville.

In the Channel Islands, the Norman language has developed separately, but not in isolation, to form what are recognized as Jèrriais (in Jersey), Guernésiais or Guernsey French (in Guernsey) and Sercquiais (or Sarkese, in Sark). Jèrriais and Guernésiais are recognized as regional languages by the British and Irish governments within the framework of the British–Irish Council. Sercquiais is in fact a descendant of the 16th century Jèrriais used by the original colonists from Jersey who settled the then uninhabited island.


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