Les Pages Jèrriaises ( English: ''The Jèrriais Pages'') is a collection of thousands of pages in and about

Jèrriais ( ; also known as the Jersey language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance languages, Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an isla ...

posted on the internet. It was created and is maintained by

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. It is the largest collection of

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materials on the internet. It has also been praised in Normandy as an example of how a Norman dialect has managed to modernise itself. Les Pages Jèrriaises have also featured prominently in a national newspaper. Les Pages Jèrriaises are divided into sections containing vocabulary (usually with English, and sometimes French, translation), grammar, authors, poems, songs, texts, and articles, information on

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and its parishes, a

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, an introduction to Jèrriais, and quizzes and games, all in Jèrriais. It contains a repository of old Jèrriais texts (such as poems, stories, and articles), published and made available to the general public. Les Pages Jèrriaises are sometimes used as a supplement to Jèrriais teaching material in classrooms on Jersey, and is also used as a resource by Jèrriais learners abroad, as well as to connect Jèrriais speakers who have left the island. They have been used as a source for Jèrriais-related research by individuals outside of Jersey, including

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's pages on the history of Jèrriais in

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History

Les Pages Jèrriaises, commissioned by La Société Jersiaise, were initially created by Geraint Jennings, and had achieved media notice by 1996. In 1999, a local contest was created to celebrate the addition of the 1,000th page.''Jersey Evening Post'' 20/8/1999

References

External links

Les Pages Jèrriaises
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