Saint Pierre and Miquelon French

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon French has received a significant contribution from the French spoken in the western regions of France, such as Normandy, Brittany, the Basque Country and Poitou.

The influence of Acadian French, on the other hand, is less significant, ‘although notable (...) particularly in Miquelon’, according to Saint-Pierre linguist Andrée Olano.{{Cite web |last=Marie Daoudal |date=2020-06-17 |title=Les origines du "parler saint-pierrais", ces mots et expressions emblématiques de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon |url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/saint-pierre-spm/origines-du-parler-saint-pierrais-ces-mots-expressions-emblematiques-saint-pierre-miquelon-844012.html |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère |language=fr-FR}} Miquelon, where Acadians from Beaubassin or Beauséjour in New Brunswick had mainly gathered.{{Cite book |last=Yves Frenette, Étienne Rivard, Marc St-Hilaire |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4069908 |title=La francophonie nord-américaine |publisher=Presses de l'Université Laval |year=2012 |location=Quebec City |pages=120–121 |language=fr |trans-title=The North American French-speaking community |chapter=Canadiens français, Français, Anglo-Normands et Acadiens dans le golfe Saint-Laurent}}

Quebec French is said to have influenced Saint-Pierre and Miquelon French, particularly in terms of the climate and flora, such as barachois, bleuet and platebière (plaquebière in Québécois French). According to the Quebec government's Centre de la francophonie des Amériques, Saint-Pierrais and Miquelonnais are a French-speaking society that is ‘culturally distinct from France’.{{Cite web |title=La francophonie à Saint-Pierre-et Miquelon |url=https://francophoniedesameriques.com/zone-franco/la-francophonie-des-ameriques/amerique-du-nord/saint-pierrre-et-miquelon#:~:text=Aujourd'hui,%20les%20Saint-,%C3%A9tant%20originaire%20de%20l'archipel. |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Centre de la francophonie des Amériques |language=fr}}

The sounds oi are transformed into oué in the last syllable of words, such as vouèr instead of voir, ‘as can be observed in Normandy’ notes the geologist Edgar Aubert de la Rüe, who spent several periods in the archipelago.

In his preface to Mots et expressions de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (Words and Expressions of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), published by the author and self-taught Saint-Pierre historian Marc Dérible in 1993, the former Prefect Bernard Leurquin noted the absence of "the slightest trace of an accent" in Saint-Pierre, but "the phrases, vocabulary, tone and flow that you might hear in Paris, Caen, Brest or Bayonne". On the other hand, he notes the "words and expressions" that are hidden in the spoken language, "giving the archipelago's vocabulary a flavour of its own".{{Cite book |last=Dérible |first=Marc |title=Mots et expressions de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon |publisher=Imprimerie administrative |year=1993 |isbn=2-910288-01-3 |location=Saint-Pierre |language=fr}}

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