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To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article may require cleanup. Please discuss this issue on the talk page, and/or replace this tag with a french english dictionnary more specific message. Editing help is available. This article has been tagged since November 2006. For other uses, see French Canadian. Canadian French is the common term for the regional dialects or varieties of French found in Canada and areas french english dictonary of French Canadian settlement in the United States. As such, it is a misnomer, even as an umbrella term, since there is no frenchenglish dictionary single Canadian dialect of French, regardless of what part of the country francophones live or were raised in. In Canada, Acadian French french emglish dictionary and Quebec French are the two significant and healthier dialects. Quebec French is spoken french english dictionarry in the province of Quebec, in neighbouring areas of Ontario and New Brunswick, and in some small communities in the Prairie Provinces and New England. Acadian French is spoken in the Maritimes provinces and in parts of the U.S. french english dictinary state of Maine, and is the ancestor of Cajun French, which is spoken french engilsh dictionary in the south-central region of Louisiana. Contents 1 Labelling 2 Dominance of Quebec French 3 See also 4 External frech english dictionary links Labelling Using "Canadian French" instead of "Acadian French" and "Quebec french english dictionary French", either separately or combined is akin to over-applying the label "British English" despite significant historical and linguistic differences. For example, labelling Scottish Standard English (SSE) or Hiberno-English (HE) in the Republic of Ireland french to english dictionary (due to a shared region and spelling) as "British English" instead of english to french dictionary "English in the British Isles" ignores the significant long-term and current distinctions among those dialects. Speakers of the various English dialects in the British Isles do not label SSE or HE as "British English" english french dictionary just as Canadian francophones do not label Quebec French or Acadian French as "Canadian French." In addition, the liberal use of the label "Canadian French" is in some ways similar to online french english dictionary the English and French uses of "Flemish" french english translation dictionary / "le flamand". These terms are almost always over-generalized to signify Dutch - the standard, common, and official language spoken by the Flemish Community of Belgium. For a detailed explanation, see the introductions for the articles on Flemish and on Dutch. When referring to Acadian French and Quebec French together french english online dictionary or to French as one of Canada's official translation french to english dictionary languages, it is therefore clearer to say "French in Canada". The reason is that language demographics and linguistic structures unique to Quebec French are often labelled "Canadian French". This french english dictionary translation labelling thus obfuscates the influences of Quebec French while eclipsing the realities of Acadian French. As a result, when most people refer to "Canadian French", it should be understood as pertaining to Quebec French given that most dictionary english free french translation people have never heard Acadian French being spoken, nor are they online french to english translation dictionary aware of the latter's existence. Dominance of Quebec French Speakers of Acadian French tend to view the more formal varieties of Quebec French as a linguistic standard for three main reasons: While being the only province whose majority translation online english french dictionary is francophone, Quebec is also home to the majority of francophones in Canada. The Quebec government has taken dictionary english french online translation legislative action to improve the social and legal status of the French language through dictionary free french english translation online massive terminological work, the Charter of the French Language, and the Office québécois de la langue française. On a pan-Canadian level, Quebec French dictionary french translation english oi overwhelmingly dominates francophone culture and the French-language media. For example, in all types of French-language television programming in Canada, including soap operas, talk shows, and sitcoms, Quebec French, be it formal or informal, is used almost exclusively. In addition to being the standard for Canada's two privately dictionary french translation to english oi owned French-language networks TVA and TQS, Quebec French is the standard for all of Canada's state-run French-language stations of translation english french dictionary Radio-Canada and the all-news cable channel Réseau de l'information, better known as RDI. The speech of Radio-Canada's english - french dictionary news anchors, i.e. formal Quebec French, is widely and historically known as "le français de Radio-Canada" (Radio-Canada French). It is their speech that serves as the de facto standard for French in Canada. In turn, Acadian French is often incomprehensible to speakers of dictionary english french translation Quebec French, who may or french english translation dictionary online may not view Acadian French as a distinct and independent variety. This is due to the predominance of Quebec French and to how Acadian French is relegated to vox pops line dictionary translation dictionnary french english or to TV shows highlighting either seamanship or Acadian historical or folk culture. In fact, Acadian French is often mistaken for franglais or for Chiac, the latter being a mixed language based on French and English. As for altavista translation french english dictionary the numerous reference works on the dialects of French in Canada, the majority concentrate on either Quebec French or Acadian dictionary free french to english translation online French but not both. One example is the Dictionnaire québécois d'aujourd'hui (Dicorobert, 1992) supervised by executive editor of the Le Robert dictionaries dictionary french to english translation Alain Rey. Those works using the term "Canadian French" or (French) "Canadianisms", on the other hand, are restricted to a few. For instance, in english french dictionary translation the introduction of Canadian French by Sinclair Robinson and Donald Smith of Ottawa's Carleton University the authors write english french translation dictionary free that "[the] Dictionary of Canadian French is aimed at all those who wish to deepen their knowledge of French as it is spoken in Quebec and Acadia [their italics]..." Upon inspection of this dictionary, there is no section on or description of french - english dictionary "Canadian French." 250 out of 269 pages are devoted solely to Quebec French (93%) whereas french english dictionary online the remaining 19 pages (7%) concentrate on both Acadian French and Cajun French, this last dialect having been American for over two centuries. In French, the Larousse Dictionnaire des canadianismes uses Quebec translation english to french dictionary French as the default dialect. dictionary translation of french to english This fact is explained in the introduction and is therefore not labelled in light of the over 95% Quebec French content. Although labelled, the sparse Acadian French entries appear as if they were exceptions. 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