Do people in Normandy have a dialect? (french project help please)?

Question

i'm doing a project on basse-normandie and haute-normandie (or lower and upper normandy) and one of the requirements is to tell about their language/dialect. Well, i'm pretty sure they speak french, but what about dialect? please give a link to a website or something telling where you got the information.

thanks

Answer 1

i'll answer to your question "p't-êt' bien qu'oui, p't-êt' bien qu'non" ("maybe, maybe not") : this is a called a "norman answer" in french !

Answer 2

Here is a map of the dialects in France.

http://www.lexilogos.com/france_carte_di...

The dialect is called Normand in French, it is part of what the French call the languages of oïl in green on the map, the dialects more influenced by Celtic and German languages and the ancestor of French (the other branch is called language of oc and is more influenced by Latin, in red on the map).

Most people do not speak it, and French is everyone's first language anyway. But the locals spike their French with plenty of dialect words.

Answer 3

The dialects in Normandy (and there are several) have some words from the Old Norse of the viking invaders who then colonised the area. And most of the rest pertains to the Langues d'Oïl of the northern part of France....Norman dialects are also spoken on the Anglo Norman Isles (Jersey for ex.)

See the following:

http://www.recherche.fr/encyclopedie/Nor...

The above website will give you all the information you need (I hope that it being in french is no problem). If you need help translating it, let me know...