Surprised by this question? You might think that since the colonists were French people who came to live in New France, then they all spoke French. Well, it wasn’t so simple. In fact, about one-third of the colonists who came to settle in the St. Lawrence Valley did not speak or understand French. Now you’re confused? There’s an explanation for this.
In France
In 1645, France was made up of different regions. In many of these regions, the dialectA dialect is the way people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some... spoken by people was so different from the French of Paris and the other large cities that they simply could not understand one another. This French was like a foreign language to them.
In New France
The same situation occurred in New France: Since not everyone spoke the same dialectA dialect is the way people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some..., some people from France did not understand the language that was generally used, which was Parisian French. However, during the 17th century, this dialectA dialect is the way people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some... quickly became the common language of all the French inhabitants of New France. Indigenous People living in New France spoke a variety of different Indigenous languages.
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See also – Traces of the past:
