Re: CHAT: browsers
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 17:49 |
Joe scripsit:
> Talking about the Channel Islands - does anyone have any info on Guernseian
> French?
Well, it's old-fashioned Normand, and the Ethnologue says there are 14,000
French-speakers in the British Isles altogether. Jerriais has perhaps 2500
speakers; there are probably even fewer in Guernsey. The official
languages of both Bailiwicks is English.
See this poem:
http://www.internationalspecialreports.com/archives/00/jersey/7.html
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