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Alderney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Alderney (French: Aurigny; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands and a British crown dependency. |
 | | The 20th century saw a lot of change in Alderney, from the building of the airport in the late 1930s to the death of the last speakers of the island's language (Auregnais, a dialect of Norman language). |
 | | Auregnais, the local dialect of Norman is extinct, and French is no longer spoken in the island (except by tourists); it ceased to be an official language in 1966, it declined a great deal from neglect, especially in the education sector, and also when most of the population was evacuated in WWII. |
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