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Magoua
Magoua (), which may derive from a word in Atikamekw language, Atikamekw: ''Makwa'' french: huard) which means common loon, ''loon'' (gavia immer), is a particular dialect of basilectal Quebec French spoken in the Trois-Rivières area, between Trois-Rivières and Maskinongé, Quebec, Maskinongé. Long before a military fort was constructed there, Trois-Rivières became in 1615 the first stronghold of the coureur des bois, coureurs des bois outside the city of Québec. ''Magoua'' is the ethnonym applied to their descendants in the area. Magoua is the most conservative of all Quebec French varieties, including Joual. It preserves the ''sontaient'' ("étaient") characteristic of Métis French and Cajun French, has a Creole language, creole-like past tense particle ''tà'' and has old present-tense contraction of a former verb "to be" that behave in the same manner as subject clitics. Morphology and vocabulary Bibliography *Demharter, Cheryl A. 1980. «Les diphtongues du français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creole Language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different languages into a new one within a fairly brief period of time: often, a pidgin evolved into a full-fledged language. While the concept is similar to that of a mixed or hybrid language, creoles are often characterized by a tendency to systematize their inherited grammar (e.g., by eliminating irregularities or regularizing the conjugation of otherwise irregular verbs). Like any language, creoles are characterized by a consistent system of grammar, possess large stable vocabularies, and are acquired by children as their native language. These three features distinguish a creole language from a pidgin. Creolistics, or creology, is the study of creole languages and, as such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist. The precise number of creole languages is not known, particularly as many are poorly attested or do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
