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Canadian dialects (English and French?
I found someone had already asked this question and the question had already been resolved, but the answers centred around French mostly. I would like to see a bit more discussion on this subject.
One person answered that there was only one English and one French dialect in Canada, which is of course quite incorrect. I have tried to talk to people in PEI that I couldn't understand. I can easily understand the French of Quebec CIty, but not a word of Joual, a well-known dialect that no one mentioned. Also, I have heard that someone from Quebec near the New Brunswick border cannot understand the French spoken by his New Brunswick neighbour.
So the question is, how many dialects in each language do you know of?
Beebo, a dialect isn't a different language. Indeed there are different dialects in Atlantic Canada.
I can look up things on wikipedia as well. I would like to hear what people from across the country think from their own experience.
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- unfit_commanderLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
In the east of Canada, there are a number of dialects of English. Especially Newfoundland is known to have its own dialect of English, and in fact the dialect differs quite noticeably even within Newfoundland.
Most people from Ontario and west speak normal Canadian English, however. There's no real difference between the English spoken in Ottawa and Vancouver.
The French spoken in Canada is totally different from standard French. They use different vocabulary, and the pronunciation is absolutely different. Plus there is lots of variation between different parts of Canada, like New Brunswick, different regions of Quebec, and the French speakers of Eastern Ontario.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
First, you will no longer get an actual and specific quantity in this. 2nd, you could desire to define precisely what you advise via "dialect" in case you like a severe answer. EDIT: George grants an actual answer, yet some issues in basic terms are not amazing. working example, George, you point out Métis French and that i comprehend for a certainty there is not any such ingredient. The French spoken in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northern Ontario could be quite comparable, even nevertheless diverse communities have diverse accents and a few expressions of their very own. yet I easily have under no circumstances heard of Métis French in the previous. and that i did no longer comprehend there replaced into an important French conversing community in ND - and that i'd be quite shocked if that replaced into the case. yet you're amazing in asserting that Mitchif is a completely diverse language - it quite is spoken particularly around St. Laurent, north of Winnipeg. Québec French is one ingredient, yet there are variations, quite in Saguenay, in Gaspé and on Îles-de-l. a.-Madeleine. Acadian French is one ingredient, yet there are numerous accents on the territory and a few communicate Chiac, a mix of French and English which even bilingual audio gadget would have a perplexing time decoding. It comes lower back to an analogous question: what's your definition of dialect?
- Erik Van ThienenLv 71 decade ago
"- 'Quebec French' is spoken in Quebec. Closely related varieties descended from it are spoken by francophone communities in Ontario, Western Canada, Labrador and even in the New England region of the United States, and differ primarily by their greater conservatism. The term 'Laurentian French' has limited currency as an umbrella term for these varieties, and Quebec French, somewhat confusingly, is also used. The overwhelming majority of francophone Canadians use this dialect.
- 'Métis French' spoken in Manitoba, North Dakota and adjacent areas, alongside with the related but distinct mixed language 'Michif'.
- 'Bonaventure County French', also spoken in neighboring parts of Beauce-Appalaches and Madawaska, seems phonologically close to Acadian French but is morphosyntactically identical with Quebec and Métis French.
- 'Acadian French' is spoken by the Acadians in some parts of the Canadian Maritimes. It is the reputed ancestor of Cajun French though this is disputed since Cajun is closer to Quebec French and Métis French than it is to Acadian.
Newfoundland French is spoken by a limited population in Newfoundland. It is an endangered dialect."
Source(s): "Canadian French", Wikipedia - Anonymous1 decade ago
As for English, I don't think it's dialect but accent. Of course there will be a few words used on the east coast that aren't used further west, but they don't speak a different language. Everyone I've met from out east just has a different accent than we do in Ontario.