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Jèrriais (french: Jersiais, also known as the Jersey Language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island i ...
: ''Vîngtaine du Rotchi'') is one of the three
vingtaine A vingtaine (literally "group of twenty" in French) is a political subdivision of Jersey. They are subdivisions of the various parishes of Jersey, and one, La Vingtaine de la Ville (The Vingtaine of the town), in Saint Helier is further divided ...
s of the Parish of Saint Clement in
Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...
.Ordnance survey map of part of Vingtaine de Samarès and Vingtaine du Rocquier, St Clement, including Le Rocquier School, Le Haguais and La Grande Route de St Clement, plan no 13/19
/ref> ''Rotchi'' means rock or rocky place in Jèrriais, and the vingtaine covers generally low-lying coastal terrain stretching north from
Le Hocq Le Hocq is an area in the parish of Saint Clement, Jersey, St. Clement, in the south-east of Jersey, Channel Islands. Le Hocq is a Jèrriais name, and means 'the headland' or 'the cape' in English. The fortified Coastal fortifications of Jersey, ...
and rising up hillsides. Within the vingtaine are Saint Clement's school (primary) and
Le Rocquier School Le Rocquier School is a secondary school, owned and operated by the States of Jersey, and located in the parish of St Clement in Jersey. History The present school building, which replaced an older building, was opened to students on 29 Februar ...
. File:Ouaîsé du Rotchi, Jèrri 2.jpg, The wooden sculpture of a bird is a landmark of the vingtaine File:St clements primary school.JPG, Saint Clement's school File:Rue de la Chapelle Saint Cliément Jèrri.jpg, This road name perpetuates the memory of a long-vanished chapel


See also

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Vingtaine de Samarès Vingtaine de Samarès is one of the three vingtaines of the Parish of St. Clement in Jersey, Channel Islands. It takes its name from the salt marsh that used to occupy much of the area of this low-lying coastal vingtaine. Samarès used to be s ...
* Grande Vingtaine


References

Rocquier Saint Clement, Jersey {{Jersey-geo-stub