Utilisateur:Dean Turbo/Comparison of French regional accents

Resources

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  1. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vari%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_r%C3%A9gionales_du_fran%C3%A7ais
  2. en:French phonology
  3. en:Phonologie du Français Contemporain > project website conversation read text
  4. http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Accents_Table
  5. Comparing Nancy and Rennes
  6. http://fr.forvo.com/word/euro

French comparison candidates

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Italics indicate significant time outside of France, or moved around the country.

To sort
  1. Nicolas_Sarkozy
  2. Christine Lagarde
  3. Gerard Depardieu

See Parisian dialect (Standard French.)

  1. Catherine Deneuve
  2. Jean Gabin: Val-d'Oise
  3. Mistinguett: Enghien-les-Bains (Val-d'Oise)
  4. Fréhel: Où_sont_tous_mes_amants_?
  5. MC Solaar: Maisons-Alfort, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (quitté Dakar (Sénégal) alors qu'il a six mois)
  6. Serge Gainsbourg
  7. Keren Ann
  8. Françoise Hardy: 9e arrondissement
  9. Maurice Chevalier Ma Pomme
  10. Édith Piaf
  11. Georges Moustaki: (left Alexandrie (Égypte) at 17)
  12. Georges Thill: Le rêve passe
  13. Lys Gauty: Levallois-Perret
  14. Jean Sablon: Nogent-sur-Marne Vous Qui Passe Sans Me Voir
  15. Lucienne Boyer: 6e_arrondissement_de_Paris Parlez Moi D'Amour
  16. Alain Souchon: 16e_arrondissement_de_Paris (left Casablanca at 6 months)
  17. Reda Caire: born Caire (Égypte) also lived in Lyon

"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.

  1. Leo Marjane: Boulogne-sur-Mer
  2. Jacques Brel: Bruxelles (Belgique), some family from Ypres
  3. Salvatore Adamo: Bruxelles (left Comiso (Sicile) aged 4)
  4. Plastic Bertrand: Bruxelles
  1. Bernard Lavilliers: Loire (département), Attention Fragile (should this be central?)
  2. Joe Dassin: New York, Grenoble, Suisse

See en:Music_of_Brittany.

South West

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See en:Basque music.

See en:Meridional French.

  1. George Brassens: Montpellier
  2. Charles Trenet: Narbonne, Béziers
  3. Yves Montand: Marseille (left Toscane aged 2)
  4. Fernandel: Marseille
  5. Boby Lapointe: Hérault (département)
  6. Juliette Gréco: Montpellier (then Paris)
  7. Tino Rossi: Corse, Côte d'azur, Toulon

Non-French

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  1. de:Eva Busch

Similarities with English

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  1. Is there a similar North/South en:isogloss?
  2. en:Metropolitan French vs Southern accent, en:RP vs Northern accent