An endangered language ...

This week, I have to speak about an endangered language

.... Well, first of all, let's go on internet and find THE original language to talk about. Let's google the
world of the 6 000 languages talked all around the planet.
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Arrrrrggg ... there are too many of them. It is too difficult to choose !

Ok let's imagine which one I could talk if the History was different. I was born in Rouen, in Normandy so ... I should speak Norman !

It's amazing !!! Norman was spoken by a lot of people in Normandy during all the Middle Age until 19th century. It was the official language of the English Court between the Hastings battle in 1066 and until the half of the 14th century. Norman has given a lot of words to the english language. For examples the words cat, chair, candel, garden, can and fork come from the normand.

We can find a lot of word from normand in the quebecois language because the "Nouvelle France" in Canada was mainly settled by French from normandy.


A proverb in normand says that "Quaund il plleut, ch'est sène de mâovais temps" which means that when it rains it is a sign of heavy weather. In normand language, there are 40 words to describe the different types of rain because in Normandy sometimes it rains ;-).

Nowadays, normand is spoken essentially in the Channel Islands and in Normandy by a few old people. The official normand is only taught at 1 000 pupils in Jersey.

If you want to hear the language of my ancester have a look on this website

And as we say in norman :
cha me fait byin pllaisi, boujou !!