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Norman dialect
Les Histoueres de Thanase Pequeu
, published
Rouen
in 1933, a collection of stories in Cauchois by Gabriel Benoist.
Cauchois
(
French pronunciation:
[ko?wa]
;
Norman
:
Caucheis
) is one of the eastern dialects of the
Norman language
that is spoken in and takes its name from the
Pays de Caux
region of the
Seine-Maritime
department.
Status
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The Pays de Caux is one of the remaining strongholds of the Norman language outside the
Cotentin
. Statistics give a wide range of interpretations as to numbers of speakers: between 0.3%
[2]
and 19.1%
[3]
of residents of Seine-Maritime identify themselves as speakers of Cauchois.
Phonology
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These are some distinguishing features of Cauchois from other Norman dialects:
- the absence of /h/
- the loss of /r/ between vowels
- a greater tendency to
metathesis
than in western dialects:
e(u)j
instead of
je
(English
I
),
eud
instead of
de
(
of
),
euq
instead of
que
(
that
),
eul
instead of
le
(
the
)
Literature
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Literature in Norman is published in magazines, both in mainland Normandy and the Channel Islands, such as
Le Pucheux
from the Pays de Caux. This issue from 2005 highlights language and literature from across the Norman-speaking regions.
The
Purin
literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, published in
Rouen
, is the earliest Norman literature displaying Cauchois features.
[4]
However, the Norman literary revival, which started in the Channel Islands and Cotentin in the 19th century, was not reflected in the Pays de Caux until the early 20th century. From 1910 onwards, a range of literature was produced; one of the features of Norman literature characteristic of Cauchois literature was the mixture of French and Norman. In Lower Normandy, Norman literature since the revival period has tended to be as exclusively Norman as possible. In the Pays de Caux, by contrast, alongside literature written exclusively in Cauchois, a genre of literature developed in which narrative is written in
French
and dialogue in Cauchois, or dialogue is written in French or Cauchois, according to the language of the character.
Notable writers in Cauchois include
Gabriel Benoist
(author of the
Thanase Pequeu
stories), Ernest Morel, Gaston Demonge, Maurice Le Sieutre and Marceau Rieul. Jehan Le Povremoyne (pseudonym of Ernest Coquin) wrote stories of the mixed dialogue genre, as did Raymond Mensire.
See also
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References
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- ^
Hammarstrom, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24).
"Oil"
.
Glottolog
.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
.
Archived
from the original on 2022-10-08
. Retrieved
2022-10-07
.
- ^
INSEE/INED, 1999
- ^
La Langue vivante
, Thierry Bulot, 2006
ISBN
2-296-01882-3
- ^
La Normandie dialectale
, Rene Lepelley, Caen 1999,
ISBN
2-84133-076-1
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