Editing Norman language (section)

{{Short description|Romance language of Northwest France}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Norman
| nativename       = ''Normaund''
| states           = * [[Normandy]] ([[Cotentin Peninsula]] and [[Pays de Caux]])
* [[Jersey]], [[Guernsey]], [[Sark]]
Previously used:
* [[Alderney]], [[Herm]]
* [[Kingdom of England]] (see [[England in the High Middle Ages]] and [[England in the Late Middle Ages]])
* [[Lordship of Ireland]] (see [[Norman Ireland]])
* [[Canada]] (formerly used to a certain degree in Eastern Canada and Quebec)
* [[Kingdom of Sicily]] (used in a limited degree)
* [[Principality of Antioch]]
| region           = [[Normandy]]
| speakers         = Total: 102,240
| date             = 2011–2015
| ref              = e25
| speakers2        = 
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3             = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
| fam4             = [[Latin]]ic
| fam5             = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam6             = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]
| fam7             = [[Western Romance languages|Western]]
| fam8             = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo]]-[[Iberian Romance languages|Iberian]]?<ref name="glottoOil">{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Oil |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111104954/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |archive-date=2023-11-11 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}</ref>
| fam9             = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo-Romance]]
| fam10            = Gallo-Rhaetian?<ref name="glottoOil"/>
| fam11            = [[Franco-Provençal|Arpitan]]–[[Langues d'oïl|Oïl]]
| fam12            = [[Langues d'oïl|Oïl]]
| fam13            = [[Langues d'oïl#Varieties|Frankish and Eastern Armorican zones]]
| ancestor         = [[Old Latin]]
| ancestor2        = [[Vulgar Latin]]
| ancestor3        = [[Proto-Romance language|Proto-Romance]]
| ancestor4        = [[Old Gallo-Romance language|Old Gallo-Romance]]
| ancestor5        = [[Old French]]
| ancestor6        = [[Old Norman]]
| dia1             = [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]]<ref>''Manuel pratique de philologie romane'', Pierre Bec, 1970–1971</ref><ref name=Anglo-Norman>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hortensj-garden.org/index.php?tnc=1&tr=lsr&nid=51-AAA-hc |title=51-AAA-hc Anglo-Normand |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=[[Linguasphere Register]] via hortensj-garden.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426071947/hortensj-garden.org/index.php?tnc=1&tr=lsr&nid=51-AAA-hc |archive-date=2023-04-26 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Linguasphere Observatory]] |via=hortensj-gardens.org}}</ref>{{Indent|1}}{{*}}[[Auregnais]]{{Indent|1}}{{*}}[[Guernésiais]]{{Indent|1}}{{*}}[[Jèrriais]]{{Indent|1}}{{*}}[[Law French]]{{Indent|1}}{{*}}[[Sercquiais]]
| dia2             = [[Augeron]]
| dia3             = [[Cauchois dialect|Cauchois]]
| dia4             = [[Cotentinais]]
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[French orthography]])
| iso3             = nrf
| iso3comment      = (partial: [[Guernésiais]] & [[Jèrriais]])
| ietf             = nrf
| glotto           = norm1245
| glottorefname    = Normand
| lingua           = 51-AAA-hc & 51-AAA-hd
| map              = Langue normande.png
| mapcaption       = Areas where the Norman language is strongest include Jersey, Guernsey, the Cotentin and the Pays de Caux.
| ethnicity        = [[Normans]]
| nation           = {{flag|Jersey}} ([[Jèrriais]])<br>{{flag|Guernsey}} ([[Guernésiais]])
| minority         = {{flag|Sark}} ([[Sercquiais]])
<br>{{flag|France}}<ref>https://hal.science/hal-04399253v1/document</ref>
}}

'''Norman''' or '''Norman French''' ({{lang|nrf|Normaund}}, {{langx|fr|Normand}} {{IPA|fr|nɔʁmɑ̃||LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-normand.wav}}, [[Guernésiais]]: {{lang|nrf-GG|Normand}}, [[Jèrriais]]: {{lang|nrf-JE|Nouormand}}) is a ''[[Langues d'oïl|langue d'oïl]]'' spoken in the [[historical region|historical]] and [[Cultural area|cultural region]] of [[Normandy]].<ref>Base de Français Médiéval, [http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/IMG/pdf/Liste_BFM112.pdf "Liste des textes de la Base de Français Médiéval"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923082926/http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/IMG/pdf/Liste_BFM112.pdf |date=23 September 2017 }}, 2012, [[École normale supérieure de Lyon]]</ref>{{sfn|Moisy|1875|pp=xix, 91}}

The name "Norman French" is sometimes also used to describe the administrative languages of ''[[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]]'' and ''[[Law French]]'' used in [[England]]. For the most part, the written forms of Norman and modern French are [[mutually intelligible]]. The thirteenth-century philosopher [[Roger Bacon]] was the first to distinguish it along with other dialects such as [[Picard language|Picard]] and [[Burgundian language (Oïl)|Bourguignon]].{{sfn|Wolff|1991|p=337}}

Today, although it does not enjoy any official status outside of [[Jersey]], some reports of the French [[Ministry of Culture (France)|Ministry of Culture]] have recognized it as one of the regional [[languages of France]].<ref>Bernard Cerquiglini, ''[http://www.dglflf.culture.gouv.fr/lang-reg/rapport_cerquiglini/langues-france.html The Languages of France]'', Report to the Minister of National Education, Research and Technology, and the Minister of Culture and Communication, April 1999</ref>