ACADIAN FRENCH LANGUAGE

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Any Québécois French volunteers? :)

[@NezuChan]

I wish. If I had a good mic. I'm not from Québec, but I can speak joual.

[@marie-eve822]

Moi !

[@АндрейБогуславский-б9о]

Il semble que ce Suédois parle français

[@lozzol1701]

yesss I am

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

I hope someone volunteers, Québécois French is very cool

[@RDWillett1]

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.

[@sergea6446]

It does say Maine in the text right between Quebec and Vermont around 0:30

[@RDWillett1]

@@sergea6446 Yea but thats not really hitting the bullseye in accuracy, there's a bigger population in Aroostook than in the whole state of Maine. Southern Maine doesn't have a population of French speakers, they mostly have other nationalities down there, like Asians, African, Latin or European. And up here in Aroostook its the other way around, we have more French speakers here than any other language or ethnicity.

[@pas_parfait]

thats pretty cool my family is from st leonard right across the border from van buren lol

[@RDWillett1]

@@pas_parfait what a small world!! im from Fort Fairfield which is across the border from Perth-Andover!

[@Morgan313]

As a Cajun, I’d like to say “Hello, Cousin” to my Maine brethren

[@Charles_The_Texan_youtuber382]

Sounds like a cowboy speaking French

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

Yeah... We like to call some of these pronunciations "having a hot potato in the mouth" lol

[@kazekokonaya1220]

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!

[@beunice]

As a Louisiana French speaker, I agree there are definitely some interesting similarities, but we are pretty different down here, as much as the Acadians are. The francophones down here don't sound similar to southern English at all, as there has been a historic divide between franco and anglo regions resulting in distinct regional differences within the state(although there has of course been plenty of cultural mixing as well). This channel does a decent job at giving a demo of Louisiana French, it's an interesting listen. I am curious about having a conversation with an Acadian speaker as I have had some good conversations in French with a Gambian francophone and we were able to easily speak with each other. I also watch a considerable amount of French television and read a lot, and I can understand it fine. I wonder how that conversation would go between an Acadian and a Louisianian in terms of comprehension as there are a considerable number of idiosyncratic similarities.

[@avishaiedenburg1102]

​@@beunice I think the person above is conflating Acadian with Cajun, which technically it is derived from, as the first Cajuns were displaced Acadians. I have no doubt the two dialects have since diverged.

[@VTFFTW]

Cajuns, are acadians, so it makes sense that they sound alike indeed lol

[@watchmakerful]

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

[@MaestroSangurasu]

Big different accent

[@viperking6573]

Such distant sounds, how can they get mixed up?

[@viperking6573]

it also changes sh with h, like marcha to marha

[@ibnenkigalileo9256]

It has nothing to do with Spanish though and it is not even the same jota sound . In some western French dialects they pronounce the j sound like a Swedish “sh” sound (like in kärlek)

[@ReiKakariki]

Acadian french is western and northwestern french. Very near to english, swedish phonetics.

[@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!!!

[@tibsky1396]

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

[@cedmelancon]

I’m from Quebec and I get 95%, but there’s a couple of novel (for me) words in there. The accent isn’t the issue even if it’s thick, it’s the unusual words like goulle and flawler.

[@ih8utbe]

I speak French from Paris dialect. I want to find others who speak acadien.

[@Siphakid]

I quebecer undertood everything

[@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. 🫂💙🫂💙🫂💙🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🥂🥂🥂🥂

[@insertusername310]

*Acadian

[@jcd5533]

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.

[@alyaly2355]

How do they pronounce the ch sound?

[@easmsagentandjapanrailwaysfan2]

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.

[@cedmelancon]

I guess you know this but Cajun is a contraction of Acadian, it’s the same people, those that got deported to the southern US, and those that were able to avoid deportation still remain in Acadie and Quebec.

[@Huhn-Bruh]

Cajun French actually Louisiana French spoken by much more than Cajuns

[@marin4311]

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.

[@yankldoodl8096]

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.

[@margauxs.4211]

They did mention at the start that this is actually ACADJONNE. It's a sub variety of Acadian French. I've heard it before, and you can tell right away that it's not standard Acadian. But FYI Chiac is also a distinct variety of standard Acadian. That's mainly spoken in South E. New Brunswick not all over Acadia. People in the Acadian peninsula (North coast of NB) speak standard Acadian French. That's just French with an accent and a local twist...it doesn't have a strong English influence like Chiac does.

[@jasondesrosiers8054]

@yankldoodl8096 You are correct!! Btw, it's Shiac and not Chiac. It's based from a town called Shediac...

[@mgplayzxd3062]

Strangely enough it, sounds like a Afrikaaner was speaking French

[@lusidruya4937]

뉴올리언스에 사는 미국 아재가 불어로 말하는 거 같다.

[@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!

[@adnyc82]

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

[@dalubwikaan161]

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

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

I'm learning French and I can definitely tell that it's French. It's similar to Scottish/Irish English, different, but more beautiful and filled with character imo.

[@gabriezoid]

sounds like if a cowboy read french out loud

[@jackcheng2850]

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

[@alanjyu]

French with a southern drawl??

[@rendeenar.99]

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. ^^

[@_juan.joao_]

Sounds like a drunken Dutch trying to speak french :)

[@peregrination3643]

I was going with an Irishman growing up in the rural American South trying to speak French.

[@ericcarlos153]

@@peregrination3643 This!

[@tibsky1396]

It's not inconsistent ^^ The Old (Salian) Frankish language was a kind of ancient version of Old Dutch, so that's what happened when the Franks adopted the Gallo-Roman language, and Old French was born.

[@sartostijn]

Sounds like South Limburgs

[@kamelboufenchouche8289]

@@tibsky1396 this is the best and craziest information in my life (information about linguistics)

[@paulochon7692]

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 !

[@Cassxowary]

yah but they weren’t the first, considering how they ended up there in the first place, so…

[@blueberryboy2872]

It sounds like French, Portuguese, and a Southern Accent had a baby

[@CarlDoucet-jm5kq]

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❤

[@HelloKitty1990_]

super finally Canadian French 👍

[@Patsoune]

It sounds a bit like the accent of northern France, near the Belgium frontier

[@Hamzachebbi137]

Nice video 💪❤️💪

[@Louisianish]

Si vous-autres veut un bon podcast en acadjonne, cherchez "L’Acadjonne." Le host vient de la Baie Sainte-Marie en Nouvelle-Écosse pis beaucoup d’ses invités viennent de cte région-là. Mais il fait des intervues aussi avec des francophones de la Louisiane comme moi. Nous-autres, on prononce aussi le J français comme un H-aspiré comme en Nouvelle-Écosse et quèques régions du Québec (et bien sûr dans le poitevin-saintongeais), so on parle de ce phénomène dans mon épisode.

[@dankmemewannabe]

Thank you so much, I’ll need to look into this!!

[@heh9392]

This kinda sounds like a Dutch person speaking French XD

[@jfrd-pw4hk]

It seems that the Acadian French underwent a velarization of palatal fricatives the like the Old Spanish when it turned into Modern Spanish.

[@ashleymarks3726]

I'm from Lafayette Louisiana, and a lot of us speak Acadian French down here.

[@elsakristina2689]

The accent sounds like something out of Louisiana, no joke.

[@Le_Trouvere]

No offense, but it sounds like if you got the average southern American to pronounce French xD this language/dialect? is just extraordinary.

[@ranyachau]

Wow....​

[@noahkowalski9231]

It’s cool cause you can hear the influence this French would have in New Orleans and with the accent that deceloped

[@isshumawatte]

Very curious how it sounds to Parisians

[@L-Ogre]

Looks like the patois spoken by the peasants of central France.

[@afreakshow1752]

It's fascinating, there's a big portion of the gallo-romance phonetic that's shared between middle french and some dialects of italy, at some point i could have swore i was hearing piacentino with a think southern american accent ahahahah

[@Sheboobellach]

Strange and beautiful language! Remarkably different from Metropolitan French and even Québécois. I love our beautiful country and it's old cultures.

[@polyglotcraft]

Languages are awesome 💯 translate this into your mother tongue 😃

[@mic1268]

In portuguese - Línguas são incríveis.

[@ViscosAtlantic]

Savour!

[@etruscanetwork]

Akkadian French

[@benandolga]

Sounds like Texas English or other southern accents of English! It seems like it has big influence on English in America

[@markus_park]

Sounds like a Texan speaking French

[@lateblossom]

He sounds like a french guitar string being plucked, or maybe a banjo.

[@Davlavi]

Interesting.

[@felipeleprof9901]

Nice... Every variation or dialects of languages is a beautiful part of history. Iam speaking Spanish and French and could understand most French variaties, but here I really struggled. 😂 It sounds like if a Dutch man were lost in France and try to speak French to get help!? 😂

[@francescocaiaffa5389]

I hope they will get independence....allez acadie....

[@juliansmith4295]

Why would you hope that, if it's not even something they're interested in?

[@54Gotland]

To me it sounds very Germanic. The pronunciation has almost no characteristics of a Romance language.

[@tibsky1396]

The Franks when they adopted the Gallo-Roman language, and then Old French was born.

[@suyuisdead]

Nice. Could you make a video about Upper and Lower Sorbian? Love from Brazil

[@ilovelanguages0124]

I need a volunteer.

[@saleemahmet5621]

Acadia is similar than France! Right?

[@pianissimo5951]

i never thought a southern accent could be applied to french.

[@scratchoriginalsdh]

Thoughts on Chiac??

[@ludomian]

At first I read "academian french" and thought it's about this pseudolanguage promoted by french academia xd

[@joanita9937]

Hello. i love your channel, Could you make a video of Luxembourgish Language please?. greeting from Colombia

[@cm.charron]

Mon famile ❤

[@kohengadole1818]

on dirait un français avec 10g dans le sang

[@CyniaTurner]

He says "gyatt" 😂😂😂

[@MarcosSilva-jx4qc]

WhatsApp what metropolitan french X french Quebec ?

[@SarpBahat]

What is Acadian

[@المرتدالفخور]

Type of French spoken in Canada etc

[@_blank-_]

0:12

[@leonardoschiavelli6478]

Acadian, the lost link between Standard French & its many widespread creoles around the world.

[@JafanAdis]

Oh god...

[@ih8utbe]

Sounds like Normandy french.

[@ivanqperello5756]

Way more beautiful sound than standard French!

[@karabiner9819]

It sounds like french version of Patois 🇯🇲

[@danmarknorge1676]

sound like a readneck mispelling french words

[@Hampter-m7r]

Wow, is this really french dialect???

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Decades of persecution by the angloids made it have a more pronouced accent rather than a smooth one

[@_blank-_]

@@ommsterlitz1805 Not sure if it's the actual explanation. It sounds like an older/rural French accent.

[@HiimIny]

​​@@ommsterlitz1805 really doubt that being the main cause for some of these changes from standart french how does presecution make you start pronouncing /ʒ/ as /x/ exactly?

[@PasteurizedLettuce]

@@HiimIny there are a lot of things going on in Acadian French - firstly, HEAVY and continual contact with English, and specifically the dialect of Maritime Canadian English or the variety of dialects present here. Secondly, it is derived from an old no longer existing dialect of French that retains a lot of features that are no longer present in French. Thirdly, heavy contact with indigenous peoples and particularly the Mi'kmaq led to other shifts in the language.

[@Seboto5]

haha maniere de chaud jcroyais on disait ink sa a bouctouche lol

[@ericcarlos153]

Oh snap!

[@SuryaManohar]

Sounds like Brazilian Portuguese

[@dave5008]

This sounds like French with a Texan accent.

[@ih8utbe]

Je parle français mais je veux apprendre acadien.

[@Ronnie-p9j]

it sounds kinda irish at times

[@StoryofA.BadAid]

Um is it funny that my name is acadia orr-

[@pchenakijatebrat]

make a quebec cs

[@jeanyvesVachon]

wrong we have 10 province in Canada so only one province Quebec are french only so another 9 province are english only...

[@AgathaLOutahere]

Wrong... New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada.

[@margauxs.4211]

Jean Yves Vachon une recherche de 5 minutes sur internet ça te tentait pas? L'humiliation ici. 💀 Le Nouveau-Brunswick est officiellement la seule province bilingue.

[@knowledgedesk1653]

Sounds like Persian

[@escobarescobar9821]

its french wtih an irish accent

[@toade1583]

That's not an Irish accent. Sounds like medieval rural French with all It's diphthongs and not having a German R.

[@MaestroSangurasu]

@@toade1583 With us accent

[@Nina_hasina]

Acadian French? More like Acoustic French

[@gracencianatalia7826]

please make TORAJANESE language (SULAWESI, INDONESIA)🙏

[@joshuafajardo646]

Poutines?!

[@karcsi-sp]

Sounds like someone from Alabama doing a bad impression of French

[@bigboyman5743]

looks like a portuguese person trying to speak french

[@Estebann800]

Not at all

[@flxdz7103]

That is Chiac a mixture of French and English not Acadian. Why did you change the spelling of words? To make it appear as a separate language? I'm sure you would never do that with Appalachian English 😡😠😡😠

[@diogoeusebio4111]

interestingly, /k/ before /y/ becomes /ç/.

[@gracencianatalia7826]

please make TORAJANESE language (SULAWESI, INDONESIA)🙏

[@ilovelanguages0124]

I need a volunteer! :D