created by Different_Method_191 on 14/10/2024 at 18:58 UTC*
46 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)
Sercquiais is the least spoken Romance language in the world. This language is spoken by only 3 people, on the island of Sark, in the Channel Islands. Sercquiais shares much with other Norman languages spoken in the Channel Islands, including Guernésiais (from the island of Guernsey) and Jèrriais (from the island of Jersey). The Czech linguist Martin Neudorfl tried to preserve Sercquiais by teaching it in Sark schools. According to Martin, Sercquiais is a beautiful language, soft and pleasant to the ear as an elvish speech from The Lord of the Rings would be. It's almost music and it's definitely a language. In my eyes, we would lose something very important if we lost Sercquiais,” he concluded.
Some words in the Sarkese language:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240221-sarkese-britains-archaic-norman-language[1][2]
1: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240221-sarkese-britains-archaic-norman-language
2: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240221-sarkese-britains-archaic-norman-language
Comment by blueroses200 at 15/10/2024 at 15:55 UTC
3 upvotes, 3 direct replies
And does this one have a revitalization movement?
Thank you for sharing so many languages! Learning a lot
Comment by Rugby-Bean at 17/10/2024 at 21:12 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's a descendant of the St Ouens (western parish of Jersey) dialect of Jerriais. The original settler of Sark were a group of families from St Ouen.