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Canadian French, the Glossary

Canadian French (français canadien) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada.^[1]

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Acadian French

Acadian French (français acadien, acadjonne) is a variety of French spoken by Acadians, mostly in the region of Acadia, Canada. Canadian French and Acadian French are French dialects.

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The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Canadian French and Acadians are French dialects.

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Adposition

Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).

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Anglicism

An anglicism is a word or construction borrowed from English by another language.

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Association québécoise de linguistique

The Association québécoise de linguistique (AQL - Quebec Linguistic Society) is an academic organization devoted to the scientific study of human language, and is a professional society for Francophone linguistic researchers in North America and beyond.

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Barbarism (linguistics)

A barbarism is a nonstandard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is an error in syntax.

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Beauce, Quebec

Beauce is a historical and traditional region of Quebec, Canada, located south of Quebec City.

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Brayon

Brayons, also called Madawaskayens, are a Francophone people inhabiting the area in and around Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada, and some parts of northern Maine.

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British North America

British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards.

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Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.

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Canadian Language Museum

The Canadian Language Museum (French: Le Musée canadien des langues), is a language museum and registered charity located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Côte-Nord

Côte-Nord (Region 09) is an administrative region of Quebec, Canada. The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Tadoussac to the limits of Labrador, leaning against the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean to the west, the Côte-Nord penetrates deep into Northern Quebec.

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Chiac

Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq), is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian French and Chiac are French language.

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Colloquialism

Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.

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Conjunction (grammar)

In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.

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Cree language

Cree (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador.

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CSA keyboard

The CSA keyboard, or CAN/CSA Z243.200-92, is the official keyboard layout of Canada.

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Demonstrative

Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.

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Dialect

Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.

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Diglossia

In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. Canadian French and English language are languages of Canada.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Franco-Ontarians

Franco-Ontarians (Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontariennes if female, sometimes known as Ontarois and Ontaroises) are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario.

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Franco-Provençal

Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a language within the Gallo-Romance family, originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.

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Francophone Canadians

Francophone Canadians (or French-speaking Canadians; Les Canadiens francophones) are citizens of Canada who speak French.

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Franglais

Franglais or Frenglish is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais).

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French Braille

French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others. Canadian French and French Braille are French language.

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French colonization of the Americas

France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Canadian French and French language are languages of Canada.

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French language in Canada

French is the mother tongue of approximately 7.2 million Canadians (22.8 percent of the Canadian population, second to English at 56 percent) according to the 2016 Canadian Census. Canadian French and French language in Canada are languages of Canada.

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French language in the United States

The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.

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French Language Services Act

The French Language Services Act (Loi sur les services en français) (the Act) is a law in the province of Ontario, Canada which is intended to protect the rights of Franco-Ontarians, or French-speaking people, in the province.

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French orthography

French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. Canadian French and French orthography are French language.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gallo-Romance languages

The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal.

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Gaspé Peninsula

The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia, is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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Glottolog

Glottolog is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages.

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History of French

French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.

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Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

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Interrogative word

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Italo-Western languages

Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages.

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Joual

Joual is an accepted name for the linguistic features of Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for some. Canadian French and Joual are languages of Canada.

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Koiné language

In linguistics, a koine or koiné language or dialect (pronounced) is a standard or common dialect that has arisen as a result of the contact, mixing, and often simplification of two or more mutually intelligible varieties of the same language.

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Language death

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

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Languages of Canada

A multitude of languages have always been spoken in Canada.

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Langues d'oïl

The langues d'oïl (The diaeresis over the 'i' indicates the two vowels are sounded separately) 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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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Little Canada (term)

Little Canada (French: le petit Canada) is a name for any of the various communities where French Canadians congregated upon emigrating to the United States, in particular New England, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Macaronic language

Macaronic language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context (rather than simply discrete segments of a text being in different languages).

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Madawaska County, New Brunswick

Madawaska County (2016 population 32,741), also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle", is located in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Magdalen Islands

The Magdalen Islands (Îles de la Madeleine) are an archipelago in the Gulf of St.

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Maillardville

Maillardville is a community on the south slope of the city of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Métis French

Métis French (français métis) is one of the traditional languages of the Métis people along with Michif and Bungi, and is the French-dialect source of Michif. Canadian French and métis French are languages of Canada.

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Michif

Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French). Canadian French and Michif are French language in Canada and languages of Canada.

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Middle French

Middle French (moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Nunavut

Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Office québécois de la langue française

The italic ((OQLF) (Quebec Office of the French Language) is an agency of the Quebec provincial government charged with ensuring legislative requirements with respect to the right to use French are respected. Established on 24 March 1961 by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage, the OQLF was attached to the Ministry of Culture and Communications.

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Official bilingualism in Canada

The official languages of Canada are English and French, which "have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada," according to Canada's constitution. Canadian French and official bilingualism in Canada are French language in Canada.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century. Canadian French and Old French are French language.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Pejorative

A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.

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Phonology

Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Port au Port Peninsula

The Port au Port Peninsula (péninsule de Port-au-Port; Kitpu) is a peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Proto-Romance language

Proto-Romance is the comparatively reconstructed ancestor of the Romance languages.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Quebec French

Quebec French (français québécois), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. Canadian French and Quebec French are languages of Canada.

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Quebec French lexicon

There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Sentence (linguistics)

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.

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Settler

A settler is a person who has immigrated to an area and established a permanent residence there.

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St. Marys Bay French

St.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Voyageurs

Voyageurs were 18th- and 19th-century French and later French Canadians and others who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.

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Western Canada

Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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