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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