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13-408: Westmorland County may refer to more than one place: Westmorland County, New Brunswick , Canada Westmorland , England, now part of Cumbria [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

26-526: A change of 9.3% from its 2016 population of 149,623 . With a land area of 3,659.74 km (1,413.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 44.7/km (115.8/sq mi) in 2021. The dominant dialect of Acadian French spoken in Westmorland County is Chiac . Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits: Acadian French Since there

39-442: A distinct variety of Acadian French spoken around Clare, Tusket, Nova Scotia and also Moncton, New Brunswick. not to be confused with affrication typical of Quebec French. Metathesis is quite common. For example, mercredi ('Wednesday') is mercordi , and pauvreté ('poverty') is pauveurté . Je (the pronoun 'I') is frequently pronounced euj and Le is frequently pronounced eul . In words, "re"

52-592: Is a county in New Brunswick , a province of Canada. It is in the south-eastern part of the province. It contains the fast-growing commercial centre of Moncton and its northern and eastern suburbs. Also located in the county are the university town of Sackville and the local tourist destination of Shediac . Westmorland County is centrally located in the Maritimes and is New Brunswick 's most populous county. Fishing and tourism are important industries along

65-506: Is often pronounced "er". For instance : Yves Cormier's Dictionnaire du français acadien (ComiersAcad) includes the majority of Acadian regionalisms. From a syntactic point of view, a major feature is the use of je for the first-person singular and plural; the same phenomenon takes place with i for the third persons. Acadian still differentiates the vous form from the tu form. The following words and expressions are most commonly restricted to Acadian French south of

78-618: The Northumberland Strait shore, and there is some mixed farming in the Petitcodiac River Valley and in the Tantramar Marsh region. The city of Moncton accounts for half of the county's population and has developed as a major transportation, distribution, commercial and retail centre. Dorchester is the historic shire town. The county, once a part of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia , was one of

91-431: The 2023 local governance reforms (listed with 2021 figures): There is one First Nations reserve in Westmorland County (population as of 2021): The county is subdivided into seven parishes (listed by 2016 population): As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Westmorland County had a population of 163,576 living in 70,090 of its 75,506 total private dwellings,

104-788: The Miramichi River, but some are also used north of the Miramichi River and in Quebec French (also known as Québécois) or Joual for the Montreal version of Quebec French. The Miramichi line is an isogloss separating South Acadian (archaic or "true" Acadian) from the Canadian French dialects to the north, North Acadian, Brayon (Madawaskan) and Quebec French (Laurentian French). South Acadian typically has morphosyntactic features such as [je [V [-on] … ]] (as in je parlons "we speak") that distinguishes it from dialects to

117-757: The South West of France. Speakers of Metropolitan French and even of other Canadian varieties of French sometimes have difficulty understanding Acadian French. Within North America, its closest relative is Louisiana French spoken in Southern Louisiana since both were born out of the same population that were affected during the Expulsion of the Acadians . See also Chiac , a variety with strong English influence, and St. Marys Bay French ,

130-452: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westmorland_County&oldid=933247658 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westmorland County, New Brunswick Westmorland County (2021 population: 163,576 )

143-677: The north or elsewhere in the Americas such as Cajun French , Saint-Barthélemy French or Métis French that have [nouzot [on- [V …]]] (as in nous-autres on parle ). Geddes (1908), the oldest authority on any variety of French spoken in Northern Acadia, records of the morphosyntactic characteristics of "true" Acadian spoken in the South and adjacent islands to the West. Some examples of "true" Acadian French are: St. Marys Bay French ,

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156-557: The original eight counties delineated shortly after the creation of the British colony of New Brunswick in 1784. Initially it included what is now Albert County and part of Saint John County . Due to sweeping social reforms of the Louis Robichaud premiership, the counties no longer serve their role as regional local government and administrative units. There were the eleven municipalities within Westmorland County before

169-514: Was relatively little linguistic contact with France from the late 18th century to the 20th century, Acadian French retained features that died out during the French standardization efforts of the 19th century such as these: According to Wiesmath (2006), some characteristics of Acadian are: These features typically occur in the speech of older people. Many aspects of Acadian French (vocabulary and "trill r", etc.) are still common in rural areas in

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