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 Norman

Normaund

 Normandy (Cotentin Peninsula and Pays de
Native t
Caux)
o
 Jersey, Guernsey, Sark

Previously used:

 Alderney, Herm
 England (see Norman England)
 Ireland (see: Norman Ireland)
 Canada (formerly used to a certain degree in
Eastern Canada and Quebec)

 Kingdom of Sicily (used in a limited degree)

 Principality of Antioch

Region Normandy and the Channel Islands

Native 20,000 (2011–2015)[1]
speaker
s  Auregnais: extinct[1]
 Guernésiais: 200 (2014)[1]
 Jèrriais: 2,000 (2011)[1]
 Sercquiais: < 20 (1998)[2]
 Augeron: < 100 (no date)[citation needed]
 Cauchois: c. 50,000 (no date)[citation needed]
 Cotentinais: c. 50,000 (no date)[citation needed]

Langua Indo-European
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family  Italic
o Latino-Faliscan
 Romance
 Italo-
Western
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Early Old Latin

forms
 Classical Latin
o Vulgar Latin
 Old Gallo-Romance
 Old French
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Dialects  Anglo-Norman (Auregnais, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, L
aw French, and Sercquiais)[citation needed]
 Augeron
 Cauchois
 Cotentinais

Writing Latin (French orthography)

system

Language codes
 ISO
nrf  (partial: Guernésiais & Jèrriais)

639-3

Glottol
norm1245

og

ELP Norman

Linguas
51-AAA-hc & 51-AAA-hd

phere

IETF
nrf

Areas where the Norman language is strongest include Jersey,

Guernsey, the Cotentin and the Pays de Caux.

Norman or Norman
French (Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is
a Romance language which can be classified as one of the langues d'oïl, which also
includes French, Picard and Walloon. The name "Norman French" is sometimes used to
describe not only the Norman language, but also the administrative languages of Anglo-
Norman and Law French used in England. For the most part, the written forms of
Norman and modern French are mutually intelligible. This intelligibility was largely
caused by the Norman language's planned adaptation to French orthography (writing).

History[edit]
Further information: Old Norman

When Norse Vikings from modern day Scandinavia arrived in Neustria, in the western

part of the then Kingdom of the Franks, and settled the land that became known as
Normandy, these North-Germanic–speaking people came to live among a local Gallo-
Romance–speaking population.[4] In time, the communities converged, so
that Normandy continued to form the name of the region while the original Norsemen
were largely assimilated by the Gallo-Romance people, adopting their speech but still
contributing some elements from Old Norse language and Norse culture. Later, when
conquering England, the Norman rulers in England would eventually assimilate, thereby
adopting the speech of the local English.[citation needed] In bo