Utilisateur:Dean Turbo/Comparison of French regional accents

Resources

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

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

To sort

1. Nicolas_Sarkozy
2. Christine Lagarde
3. Gerard Depardieu

Paris (and Île-de-France)

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

North

"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

East

1. Bernard Lavilliers: Loire (département), Attention Fragile (should this be central?)
2. Joe Dassin: New York, Grenoble, Suisse

West

See en:Music_of_Brittany.

South West

See en:Basque music.

South

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

1. de:Eva Busch

Similarities with English

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