Sercquiais

Introduction

The sercquiais (sercquiais some: Serkyee ) is a variety of language Normand E spoken with the Anglo-Norman island about Sercq. It is close to Norman continental (haguais).

It goes up with the Jersey brought to Sercq to at the time of the colonization of the island, uninhabited at that time, by forty Jersey families of Saint-Ouen, however influenced since by the Guernesiais (dialect of Guernesey). He is still spoken by the oldest inhabitants about the island. Even if the Lexique is strongly anglicized, the Phonologie retains elements lost in Jersey since.

He extremely recently suffered had with a broad surge from exiled from tax come from England which moved on the island, just like to the official negligence.

If sercquiais it is close to Jersey, the Auregnais (dialect of Aurigny) was close to guernesiais.

Conjugation of the verbs

The origins saint-ouennaises of sercquiais can be noticed in the forms of 2nd and 3rd people of plural to the preterite. Sercquiais uses a termination in - typical Dr. of the dialect saint-ouennais of Jersey, but generally unutilised the autrepart in Jersey (nor nowadays by the youngest speakers of Saint-Ouen).

Written Sercquiais

Relatively little of sercquiais was transcribed, and since there is no commonly accepted form, it was the object of a certain mistrust. Ram Sybil Hathaway, which was itself a speaker, said that sercquiais it could not “never be written” and since, this myth continued to be perpetuated.

The oldest text published sercquiais some up to now is the Parabole of the sower of the Évangile according to Matthieu. The prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, linguist, visited the Anglo-Norman islands in September 1862 in order to transcribe samples of the insular varieties of language, which it subsequently published in 1863.

References

Lexicon off Sark Norman French , Anthony J. Liddicoat, Munich 2001
has Grammar off the Norman French off the Chanel Islands , Anthony Liddicoat, Berlin 1994

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