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Ch'est 'chin aen "side-blog" ouecque l'Enfaeutchie s'en va postaï ses Maots d'Ogniet. This is a side-blog where Enfaeutchie will be posting her Words of the Day.
Since 2020, on Discord, Tumblr, cohost, and Twitter, I've been posting one word every day from the Guernésiais language, the dialect of Norman from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Guernésiais is severely endangered with likely less than 200 remaining native speakers, the majority of whom are elderly. While government funding has finally been allocated to preserve the language, revitalisation is still very slow. Thankfully, it is well documented in both text and audio.
Norman is one of the Langues d'Oïl, the spectrum of Romance languages which includes French. For many years, the Langues d'Oïl have been regarded as lower-class "patois" of French, a perception reinforced by the frankly linguicidal attitudes of the French and British states. This perception is entirely erroneous. Norman is one of the major influences on English, with many everyday words such as "camp", "pocket" and "scarf" having identifiably Norman pronunciations (compare the French champ, pochette and écharpe, all of which have ch).
Guernésiais (A.K.A. Guernsey French, Guernsey Patois) severely declined after the beginning of English-only schooling and the Nazi Occupation during WWII, both of which limited children's exposure to the language and taught them to be ashamed of it and think of it as lesser. Other dialects of Norman have similar stories, but they are finally beginning to improve in public perception.
I am not a trained linguist or a native speaker, just an enthusiastic learner. I base my IPA transcriptions on my own experiences and on the collected academic works on the language.
If you're interested in learning more about the languages, I have a list of resources on my main blog (pastebin mirror) and my asks are open.
For an archive of all the Words of the Day so far, see this link (but please don't take the older ones as 100% fact - I'm always learning!): WOTD Archive Spreadsheet
Merci bian pour m'avé écoutaïe.