St. Mary's Bay French | |
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français de la Baie Sainte-Marie (French) | |
Region | Clare, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Ethnicity | Acadians |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
French alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
IETF | fr-u-sd-cans |
In this map of Acadian French, Clare is on the west of Nova Scotia. |
St. Marys Bay French (French: français de la Baie Sainte-Marie) is a dialect of Acadian French spoken around St. Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, specifically in the region of Clare, Nova Scotia. While sharing features with other dialects of Acadian French, it differs from these and other varieties of French in its morphology and phonology,[1] and to a lesser extent its lexicon.[2]