5 thoughts on “Language Quiz

  1. This sounds like a variety of French to me, perhaps from northern France or southern Belgium. I can understand many words but not the overall meaning of the dialogue.

  2. It is certainly French and from the accent I think it could be spoken in Québec or northern Ontario, Smaller chance of Acadian French. I am basing it all on the last word which is bois but is pronounced here as “boé”. It’s the fable by Æsop of the Fox and the Crow,

  3. The language is Norman (Normaund), a Romance language spoken in Normandy in northern France. It sounded familiar to me because we’ve had that already before, on 20 April 2023!

  4. The mystery language is indeed Norman (Normaund), a Gallo-Romance language spoken in Normandy in northern France.

    That was too easy. I checked if we’d had Norman before, and must have missed it.

  5. It’s funny that I associate the Normaund accent with Québec. You often see older homes in Québec with what they call a Norman roof line, where the edge of the roof turns up at the eave. I guess the accent and the architecture are both fro the same area.

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