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	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French (français) is the third largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, being spoken by about 109 million people as a mother tongue [3], and altogether by some 264 million people [4] (including second-language speakers and learners).
		The earliest extant text in French is the Oaths of Strasbourg from 842; Old French became a literary language with the chansons de geste that told tales of the paladins of Charlemagne and the heroes of the Crusades.
		French has been the only official language of Quebec since 1974, although it is commonly (and incorrectly) believed that the designation of French as the sole official language occurred in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter of the French Language (which is popularly referred to as Bill 101).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_language (3721 words)

	Cajun French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cajun French is a variety or dialect of the French language spoken primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, particularly in Lafayette Parish, Evangeline Parish, St.
		In 1755 (during the French and Indian War), about 75% of the Acadian population living in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia were deported in what is often known as the Great Expulsion.
		The primary region where Cajun French is spoken is called Acadiana (not to be confused with Acadia, which refers to the region where Acadian French is spoken).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cajun_French (1062 words)

	Cajun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cajuns are an ethnic group consisting essentially of the descendants of Acadians who were expelled from Nova Scotia as a result of their refusal to swear allegiance to the British Crown and resettled in Louisiana.
		Cajuns are primarily the descendants of refugees who were mainly French Canadian with some Aboriginal/Métis ancestry, especially Abenaki and Mi'kmaq; however other groups have contributed to the modern Cajun population.
		Cajun populations today are found also in the area south of New Orleans and scattered in areas adjacent to the French Louisiana region, such as to the north in Alexandria, Louisiana and in Southeastern Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cajun (3165 words)

	Cajun French at LSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cajun French is the term generally used to describe the variety of French spoken in South Louisiana.
		Where Cajun French differs from the standard, it is due to a variety of influences similar to those which have caused regional variation in other languages of the world.
		The objectives of that type of research are different from those of basic language Cajun French courses, whose main goal is preservation of the language and its perpetuation among a new generation.
	www.artsci.lsu.edu /fai/Cajun/definition.html (916 words)

	Cajun French: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cajun French is a dialect of the French language (French language: french (français, spelled françois until 1835, both pronounced in standard french,...
		Cajun (Cajun: A Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')) areas of Louisiana sometimes form partnerships with Acadians in Canada who send French teachers to teach the language in schools.
		Acadian French (Acadian French: acadian french (le français acadien) is a dialect of french spoken by the acadians...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/cajun_french (763 words)

	Cajun French: Creoles: Creole Language: French: Cajuns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For example, Cajuns along the Bayou Teche are as likely to speak Creole as their fl Creole neighbors, while fl Creoles living out on the southwestern prairies tend to speak what amounts to modern Cajun French.
		French was the language of everyday life and government in Louisiana into the 19th century.
		Cajun French is a close enough variant of the French language to use standard orthography in most cases.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajun_French_and_Creole.html (1413 words)

	Cajun Music
		Once again, being Cajun and possessing the French sound, felt by many to be nothing but chanky-chank, was a source of shame rather than pride, and Americanization was the order of the day.
		Cajun music and folklife festivals abounded, where youngsters could actually see and hear Cajun musicians (law had kept them out of the bars and dancehalls where the music had previously been played).
		Both times Cajun musicians decided instead to use what they could of the mainstream culture within what they felt to be the idiom of Cajun music, and to discard the rest.
	www.dirtynelson.com /linen/feature/60cajun.html (3290 words)

	Louisiana Cajun French and Creole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the grammar and syntax of spoken Cajun French pose an orthographic problem, as in the variant conjugation of certain verbs, historical spellings can be used (ils estiont, ils vouliont).
		Cajun French and Creole are often unfavorably (and unfairly) compared to Parisian French.
		It should be considered, however, that Parisian French itself varies greatly from one arrondissement of the city to another, and from the campus of the Sorbonne to the market districts.
	www.cajunnetwork.com /ccfma/Ancelet4.htm (1590 words)

	On Being Cajun
		His first language is Cajun French and he had to learn the majority of his English in grade school.
		The state legislature passed a law forbidding the speaking of Cajun French in schools and proclaiming English as the required language for all legal correspondence.
		Cajuns living in rural St. Landry Parish were very poor and depended upon their families in order to live.
	www.coonass.com /becajun.htm (816 words)

	Community Partnerships \| Vive les Cadjins! \| Cajun French at LSU
		The Cajuns were forced to leave after refusing unconditional allegiance to the British crown, and thousands of Acadian families were loaded onto boats and dispersed among the American-British colonies.
		LSU’s Department of French Studies, ranked eighth in the nation by the National Research Council, used the gathered research material and funding from federal agencies for the creation of a Cajun French undergraduate curriculum, which allows students to major or minor in French with an emphasis in Cajun French.
		The French Department is in the process of creating a Cajun Studies minor that may include additional courses in anthropology, history, cultural geography, and folklore.
	www.lsu.edu /highlights/052/cajun.html (1161 words)

	Cajun Music: Cajuns: Music: Cajun French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the 1930s, changes in Cajun music reflected the growing impact of the Americanization of the Cajuns, a process that included a serious attempt to eradicate the society's native French language and denigrate their culture, fueled by the nationalism that accompanied World War I and the Great Depression.
		Cajun bands abandoned the accordion in favor of stringed instruments with which they could imitate the socially acceptable sounds of Western Swing and country music.
		In the 1950s, the emergence of rock and roll and country music once again attracted young Cajun musicians away from their traditional roots to perform what came to be called swamp pop.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajun_Music.html (832 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Cajun \| PBS
		The Cajuns have been referred to as a “linguistic curiosity,” and, in fact, their versions of English and French differ from American English and the French spoken in France.
		Cajuns are descendants of French settlers who moved into the area of Canada known as Acadia (modern day Nova Scotia) in the early 1600s.
		The French spoken by the older Cajuns was passed on to their descendants, who found it necessary to speak English for socioeconomic reasons, and the syllable final/phrase final stress of French persists to this day in the speech of Cajuns.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/cajun (1962 words)

	French Creoles \| Cajun Music
		Around the turn of the century Cajun was a predominently fiddle based music played at house dances (bals de maison) and fais-do-dos (named for the seperate room where children could be rocked to sleep).
		By the Eisenhower era "Cajun" had become a mainly deprecatory term and the music, like the Cajun-French languge, was shunned by socially conscious Cajuns and non-Cajuns alike.
		The flowering of Cajuns music since the sixties can be attributes to many influences: folklorists who brought artists like Dewey Balfa before a national audience, stubbornly indepedent Cajun record men, the Council on Development of French in Louisiana, and the musicians who never gave up.
	www.frenchcreoles.com /CajunMusic.html (278 words)

	CAJUN HISTORY
		A flag was adopted with the French tricolor to which a yellow star was added in the blue field.
		The other Cajuns captured were brought to England as prisoners of war and put in concentration camps.
		Some 1,500 Cajuns that were not sent to England were sent to Virginia instead as prisoners of war, then later expelled.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/2073/cajun.htm (2077 words)

	City of Lake Charles - Cajun French Music & Food Festival
		The Cajuns were French colonists displaced by war in the 18th Century.
		The Cajun music that has blossomed here has a waltz-like quality and is directly descended from the music brought south by those early settlers.
		The Cajun French Music and Food Festival is a two-day celebration sponsored by the local Chapter of CFMA (Cajun-French Music Association) and features continuous Cajun music from the finest bands in the area.
	www.cityoflakecharles.com /festivals/cajun_french.asp (136 words)

	91.02.02: Cajun Music: the Voice of the Cajun Family
		Cajun music is the focus for this unit as it reflects Cajun family life, customs, and language.
		Cajun farmers settled on the prairie, and the trappers and fishermen built their houses in the bayous (“Bayou” is from a Choctaw Indian word “bayuk” meaning creek or small river).
		The Cajuns were amazed that the language they were forbidden to speak outside their homes in Louisiana, was not only acceptable but respected by everyone they met.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/2/91.02.02.x.html (6017 words)

	The Cajun Dialect
		Sometimes a French word is thrown in when the English word is not known.(You should have heard the potain(ruckus) next door.) Cajun French is a spoken language mainly.
		The old cajun people who passed the language down to their descendants rarely went to school, and if they did, they went to school here in America, so only English was taught.
		Today the children are being taught French, not Cajun French, in the elementary schools,and in many instances by teachers who are not Cajun because we have so few teachers who are fluent in French and qualified to teach it.
	www.geocities.com /tokyo/flats/4396/language.html (2197 words)

	Cajun French is NOT ok; c'est Magnifique! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Louisiana residents and Cajuns alike usually attribute this shame to the fact that for decades French was illegal in schools and young Cajuns were punished and sometimes beaten for speaking the only language they knew.
		French is my first language and I understand well all its variation be it Cajun, Parisian, Acadian, Quebecer, standard, international French, or whatever else you wish to call it.
		Cajun French has absolutely nothing to do with claw hammers, except maybe that they're called "marteau" in both Cajun French and Parisian French.
	www.cajunnetwork.com /ccfma/saucier.htm (791 words)

	88.02.01: The Cajuns: Natives with a Difference!
		Cajun cuisine is a totally indigenous American cuisine, drawing from pure French, pure Spanish, Acadian and other Louisiana French elements as well as Black, Indian and other elements in Louisiana’s history and culture and is a traditional food having evolved over a prolonged period of time.
		In southern Louisiana, French culture and language were slag to be discarded in the Cajun’s rush to join the mainstream.
		Those Cajuns who were upwardly mobile and were concerned with money and education as a way out of their class, embraced the movement toward English and away from French.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1988/2/88.02.01.x.html (6683 words)

	Acadian-Cajun Genealogy Links
		• The neutral French, or, The exiles of Nova Scotia, by Mrs.
		The highlight of the location is a reconstruction of the early 17th century structures (the Habitation) built by the earliest French settlers.
		Vermilionville is a Cajun and Creole living history museum and folklife village in Lafayette, LA. Visit their website for more information and a schedule of events.
	www.acadian-cajun.com /genlink.htm (3729 words)

	RadioLouisiane.com
		Many Cajun albums consist entirely of re-recordings of old standards and the words are very secondary to the music.
		Although Zachary can play great Cajun dance music, he has had his greatest success with songs that are not at all for dancing, but rather that tell stories.
		If you are a Cajun, Zydeco, Acadian or Franco-American band anywhere in the world which records in French, we want to give your music a world-wide audience.
	www.radiolouisiane.com /welcome.htm (700 words)

	EtToi.com - Cajun Dance and Zydeco in Atlanta - Cajun French Defined
		This might be compared to experiences that Americans have in communicating with British or Australian English speakers.
		Further, because of the influence of factors such as cultural tourism, easy access to French language media and modern transportation, more and more Lousiana French speakers are exposed to European and Canadian French through studies or human contact, and they often incorporate "foreign French" terms into their usual language.
		Furthermore, most Cajuns, especially since the turn of the century, did not read and write French, so their language did not experience the "standardizing" effect of a written code to stabilize and eliminate certain variables.
	www.webmonkeydean.com /et-toi/gatorbites_cajunfrenchdefined (994 words)

	Clarence's Guide to the Cajun French Language, Cajun Phrases, and Cajun Dictionary
		Clarence's Cajun radio programs in Baton Rouge are Sat 7pm-8 on 90.3 FM and Sun noon-2 on 1260 AM.
		Glossaire Français Cadien-Français Européen: Cajun-Standard French Glossary by Amanda LaFleur
		Cajun instrument instructions, How to Play Cajun Fiddle, Accordion, Guitar, Guitar chords, etc. And much more - interviews in French to demonstrate the Cajun language, discographies, lists of how and where to find Cajun records.
	www.cajunradio.org /language.html (838 words)

	Real Cajun Recipes : Learn Cajun French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a Cajun who is an avid fan of the Internet and does not speak Cajun French, I've looked around for a site to help me learn my parents' native tongue.
		Father Daigle himself narrates in English and pronounces in Cajun French the lessons from the book.
		It comprises a section of English to Cajun and one of Cajun to English.
	www.realcajunrecipes.com /french (290 words)

	Louisiana cajun zydeco dance party music delta blues Cajun Creole recipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The French Market Doughnuts covered with powdered sugar They Can be Found at Café Du Mondethe world famous original French Market Coffee Stand The Cafe is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
		The Cajun French Music Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of cajun music and culture
		At the age of 12 she was singing with French and country bands.
	www.caneman2.com /cajun.html (1139 words)

	Cajun French Music Association: Music Awards
		The Le Cajun Award and Festival is a unique three day event that features an awards ceremony honoring the best in Cajun music and Cajun musicians and includes a two-day dance festival with award winning Cajun bands providing the music.
		The Grammy style awards ceremony, sponsored by the Cajun French Music Association (CFMA) includes awards for Band of the Year, Best Accordionist, Best Fiddler, Best Male and Female Vocalist, Song of the Year and Best Recording of the Year.
		Cajun bands from outside Louisiana including Europe are also recipients of awards.
	www.cajunfrenchmusic.org /music/lecajun.htm (214 words)

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