Norman leid

Norman or Norman French (Mainland Norman: Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is aither a French byleid or a Romance leid an yin o the Oïl leids alang wi French, Picard, an Walloon.

Norman
Normaund
Native tae	Normandy (Cotentin Peninsula an Pays de Caux) Jersey, Guernsey, Sark Umwhile uised: Alderney, Herm Ingland Ireland Canadae (umwhile uised in Eastren Canadae an Quebec) Kinrick o Sicily Principality o Antioch
Region	Normandy an the Channel Islands
Native speakers	Unkent (2017) Auregnais: 0 (dee'd)[1] Guernésiais: c. 1,300 (haes govrenment help) Jèrriais: c. 4,000 (haes govrenment help)[1] Sercquiais: < 20 in 1998 (heichly endangered)[1] Augeron: < 100 (heichly endangered) Cauchois: c. 50,000 (haes local help) Cotentinais: c. 50,000 (haes local help)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Wastren Gallo-Romance Oïl Norman
Early form	Auld Norman
Dialects	Auregnais Guernésiais Jèrriais Sercquiais Augeron Cauchois Cotentinais
Writin seestem	Latin (French orthography)
Leid codes
ISO 639-3	nrf (partial: Guernésiais & Jèrriais)
Glottolog	norm1245  Normand[2]
Linguasphere	51-AAA-hc & 51-AAA-hd
IETF	nrf
Airts whaur the Norman leid is strangest the day include Jersey, Guernsey, the Cotentin an the Pays de Caux.

Historie

Whan Vikings fae modren day Denmark, Norawa, Swaden, an Iceland wun tae the auld province o Neustria an sattelt the laund that becam kent as Normandy, thir Germanic spikkin fowk cam tae bide amang a local Romance spikkin group. In time, the commonties cam thegither, sae that the name Normandy wis keept bit the springheid Normans war assimilatit by the Gallo-Romance fowk, taen thair speech. Later, whan ower halin Ingland, the Norman rulers woud hinderly assimilate, thareby taen the speech o the local Inglis fowk. Houaniver, in baith cases, the elites contreebutit pairts o thair ain leid tae the newly makkit leids that developit in thair reenges.

In Normandy, the Norman leid heirt ainly aboot 150 wirds fae Auld Norse. The influence on phonologie is disputit, awtho hit is argied that the haudin o aspiratit /h/ an /k/ in Norman is fae Norse influence.