Акадский французский: особенности произношения и диалекты.

Variety of French spoken in eastern Canada

Acadian French is a variety of French spoken by Acadians, mostly in the region of Acadia, Canada. Acadian French has 7 regional accents, including Chiac and Brayon.

not to be confused with affrication typical of Quebec French. and are commonly replaced by before a front vowel. For example, quel, queue, cuillère and quelqu'un are usually pronounced tchel, tcheue, tchuillère and tchelqu'un. Tiens is pronounced tchin and often become (sometimes ) before a front vowel. For example, bon dieu and gueule become and in informal Acadian French. Braguette becomes (This pronunciation led to the word Cajun, from Acadien.)

Metathesis is quite common. For example, mercredi ('Wednesday') is mercordi, and pauvreté ('poverty') is pauveurté. Je (the pronoun 'I') is frequently pronounced euj and Le is frequently pronounced eul. In words, "re" is often pronounced "er". For instance :
erçu for "reçu", ertourner for "retourner", erpas for "repas", ergret for "regret", s'entertenir for "s'entretenir".

Acadian French has maintained phonemic distinctions between and , and , and , and In informal speech, the vowel is realized as : pas ('step') → and bras (arm) → , etc. The short is realized as and it is the same as Parisian French. is open to or closed to , it depends on the region: fête ('party') → or and caisse ('case') → or , etc. The ⟨oi⟩ spelling has different pronunciations. Old speakers pronounce it , because the traditional Parisian pronunciation was like this: roi ('king') But in modern standard Acadian French, it is pronounced Even where there is no circumflex, there are some words which are phonemically pronounced and the phoneme is pronounced as in formal speech but in informal speech: trois ('three') or and noix ('nut') or The ⟨oî⟩ spelling is phonemically , but old speakers pronounce it , while modern speakers pronounce it as in Quebec French: boîte ('box') or and croître ('grow') or , etc.

Consonant clusters finishing a word are reduced, often losing altogether the last or two last consonants in informal speech: table ('table') → and livre ('book'/'pound') → , etc.