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Quebec French
French of Quebec
Français québécois(French)
Native to
Quebec (primary location and sole official language)
Ontario
Western Canada
New England
Michigan
Florida (especially Hallandale Beach)
Ethnicity
Québécois people
Native speakers
7 million in Quebec; 700,000 speakers elsewhere in Canada and the United States (2006)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Italo-Western
Western Romance
Gallo-Romance
Oïl
French
Quebec French
Early forms
Vulgar Latin
Old Gallo-Romance
Old French
Middle French
Writing system
Latin script (French alphabet) French Braille
Official status
Official language in
Quebec
Regulated by
Office québécois de la langue française
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
queb1247
Linguasphere
51-AAA-hq & 51-AAA-icd & 51-AAA-ii
IETF
fr-u-sd-caqc
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Quebec French (French: français québécois[fʁɑ̃sɛkebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government.
Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French, recorded in Slovenia.
Canadian French is a common umbrella term to describe all varieties of French used in Canada, including Quebec French. Formerly it was used to refer solely to Quebec French and the closely related dialects spoken in Ontario and Western Canada[citation needed], in contrast with Acadian French, which is spoken in some areas of eastern Quebec (Gaspé Peninsula), New Brunswick, and in other parts of Atlantic Canada, and Métis French, which is found generally across the Prairie provinces.
The term joual[2] is commonly used to refer to Quebec working class French (when considered a basilect), characterized by certain features often perceived as phased out, "old world" or "incorrect" in standard French.[3]Joual, in particular, exhibits strong Norman influences largely owing to Norman immigration during the Ancien Régime (they were perceived as true Catholics and allowed to immigrate to the new world as an example of ideal French settlers). For example the word placoter can mean both to splash around or to chatter which comes from the Norman French word clapoter which means the same thing. Its equivalent in Acadian French is called Chiac.
^Source: 2006 Census of Canada Archived 2009-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. Includes multiple responses. The simplifying assumption has been made that there are no native speakers of Quebec French in Atlantic Canada (see Acadian French) but that all native speakers of French in the rest of Canada are speakers of Quebec French.
^"Joual - Definition of Joual by Merriam-Webster". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
^Entry for joual in Dictionnaire du français Plus. "Variété de français québécois qui est caractérisée par un ensemble de traits (surtout phonétiques et lexicaux) considérés comme incorrects ou mauvais et qui est identifiée au parler des classes populaires."
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