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Jèrriais

Jèrriais

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Sep 30, 2026

Malcolm LewisGUEST
26:50
If you go into certain parishes, of course, we've got these 12 parishes on the island.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
26:55
If you go to some of the north parishes on the north coast of the island, or the northwest in particular, in particular the parish of St. Juan, which is the northwest of the island, you will sometimes hear to this day the old patois, the old Jersey French.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:09
And the old Jersey French is the derivative of the old Norman French.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:13
which harps back to our history of the Duke of Normandy and the Normans and all that.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:18
And it is still spoken by some of the old folk in some of the farmsteads in the more far-flung places on the island.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:24
And also Jersey French is now being revived in our College of Further Education.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:29
We're trying to sort of make sure that it doesn't get lost forever.
Malcolm LewisGUEST
27:32
It's almost a bit like sort of English Chaucer, if you like, medieval English.
Henry PakerHOST
54:36
Obviously we've had English.
Henry PakerHOST
54:37
So we need to, we need to tick off Manx, Jersey French.
Mike WozniakHOST
54:41
Mm-hmm.
Henry PakerHOST
54:41
Ulster Scots.

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