Utilisateur:Dean Turbo/Comparison of French regional accents
Resources
modifierFrench comparison candidates
modifierItalics indicate significant time outside of France, or moved around the country.
- To sort
Paris (and Île-de-France)
modifierSee Parisian dialect (Standard French.)
- Catherine Deneuve
- Jean Gabin: Val-d'Oise
- Mistinguett: Enghien-les-Bains (Val-d'Oise)
- Fréhel: Où_sont_tous_mes_amants_?
- MC Solaar: Maisons-Alfort, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (quitté Dakar (Sénégal) alors qu'il a six mois)
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Keren Ann
- Françoise Hardy: 9e arrondissement
- Maurice Chevalier Ma Pomme
- Édith Piaf
- Georges Moustaki: (left Alexandrie (Égypte) at 17)
- Georges Thill: Le rêve passe
- Lys Gauty: Levallois-Perret
- Jean Sablon: Nogent-sur-Marne Vous Qui Passe Sans Me Voir
- Lucienne Boyer: 6e_arrondissement_de_Paris Parlez Moi D'Amour
- Alain Souchon: 16e_arrondissement_de_Paris (left Casablanca at 6 months)
- Reda Caire: born Caire (Égypte) also lived in Lyon
North
modifier"Notable features include a strong distinction between long and short vowels, the lack of the approximant /ɥ/, [in 'huit'] and the use of certain Belgicisms." — see en:Varieties_of_French#European_dialects.
- Leo Marjane: Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Jacques Brel: Bruxelles (Belgique), some family from Ypres
- Salvatore Adamo: Bruxelles (left Comiso (Sicile) aged 4)
- Plastic Bertrand: Bruxelles
East
modifier- Bernard Lavilliers: Loire (département), Attention Fragile (should this be central?)
- Joe Dassin: New York, Grenoble, Suisse
West
modifierSee en:Music_of_Brittany.
South West
modifierSee en:Basque music.
South
modifierSee en:Meridional French.
- George Brassens: Montpellier
- Charles Trenet: Narbonne, Béziers
- Yves Montand: Marseille (left Toscane aged 2)
- Fernandel: Marseille
- Boby Lapointe: Hérault (département)
- Juliette Gréco: Montpellier (then Paris)
- Tino Rossi: Corse, Côte d'azur, Toulon
Non-French
modifierSimilarities with English
modifier- Is there a similar North/South en:isogloss?
- en:Metropolitan French vs Southern accent, en:RP vs Northern accent