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  2. Joual - Wikipedia

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    The actual word Joual is the representation of how the word cheval ( Standard French: [ʃəval], 'horse') is pronounced by those who speak Joual. ("Horse" is used in a variation of the phrase parler français comme une vache 'to speak French like a cow', i.e. to speak French terribly; hence, a put-down of the Québécois dialect.) The weak ...

  3. Quebec French - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French ( French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa] ), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French ...

  4. Charter of the French Language - Wikipedia

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    The Charter of the French Language (French: La charte de la langue française ), also known as Bill 101 ( French: Loi 101 ), is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government. It is the central piece of legislation that forms Quebec ...

  5. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French lexicon. There are various lexical differences between Quebec French and Metropolitan French in France. These are distributed throughout the registers, from slang to formal usage. Notwithstanding Acadian French in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec French is the dominant form of French throughout Canada, with only very limited ...

  6. Office québécois de la langue française - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .oqlf .gouv .qc .ca. The Office québécois de la langue française ( Canadian French: [ɔˈfɪs kebeˈkwɑ də la lãɡ fʁãˈsaɪ̯z] ( OQLF) (English: Quebec Office of the French Language) is an agency of the Quebec provincial government charged with ensuring legislative requirements with respect to the right to use French are ...

  7. Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction

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    Le développement des idéologies au Québec des origines à nos jours: 1978: François-Marc Gagnon: Paul-Emile Borduas : Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre: 1979: Dominique Clift, Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos: Le fait anglais au Québec: Daniel Latouche: Une société de l'ambiguïté: Pierre Nepveu: Les mots à l'écoute

  8. Culture of Quebec - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French -speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term ...

  9. Canadian French - Wikipedia

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    fr-CA. Canadian French ( French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Québécois (Quebec French). Formerly Canadian French referred solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario ...