Subdialects Colonial French




1 subdialects

1.1 prairie french
1.2 bayou french
1.3 natchitoches french
1.4 pointe coupée parish french





subdialects

louisiana s colonial french-choctaw patois varies community , ethnic group.


prairie french

prairie french spoken among creole, cajun, , (other) white residents in southwest louisiana.


bayou french

bayou french spoken among white french creoles, other white people, , american indians in southeast louisiana. has many old lost acadian phrases , sayings sound crude other louisiana french speakers.


natchitoches french

although known natchitoches french, variety spoken not metis creoles of natchitoches parish. dialect has heavy choctaw influence when compared other dialects. 1 aspect of note use of halito, choctaw word hello, when greeting 1 s elders.


the numbers of dialect have dwindled greatly; not many native speakers of dialect survive.


pointe coupée parish french

many speakers of dialect bilingual in both louisiana creole , louisiana french-choctaw patois. hence, there heavy presence of code-switching , lexical borrowing among louisiana creole, louisiana french-choctaw patois, , english








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