Editing French language in Canada (section)

==Dialects and varieties==
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As a consequence of geographical seclusion and as a result of British conquest, the French language in Canada presents three different but related main dialects.{{specify|date=June 2024}} They share certain features that distinguish them from European French.

All of these dialects mix, to varying degrees, elements from regional languages and folk dialects spoken in France at the time of colonization. For instance, the origins of [[Quebec French]] lie in 17th- and 18th-century Parisian French, influenced by folk dialects of the early [[French language|modern period]] and other [[Oïl languages|regional languages]] (such as [[Norman language|Norman]], [[Picard language|Picard]] and [[Poitevin (language)|Poitevin]]-[[Saintongeais dialect|Saintongeais]]) that French colonists had brought to [[New France]]. The three dialects can also be historically and geographically associated with three of the five former colonies of [[New France]] – [[Canada, New France|Canada]], [[Acadia]] and [[Colony of Newfoundland|Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland)]] – which were settled by people from different regions of France.<ref name="Wade1975">{{cite journal|first=Mason|last=Wade|title=Commentary: Québécois and Acadien|journal=[[Journal of Canadian Studies]]|date=May 1974|volume=9|issue=2|pages=47–53|doi=10.3138/jcs.9.2.47|url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jcs.9.2.47?journalCode=jcs |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In addition, there is a [[mixed language]] known as [[Michif]], which is based on [[Cree language|Cree]] and French. It is spoken by [[Métis]] communities in [[Manitoba]] and [[Saskatchewan]] as well as within adjacent areas of the United States.

Immigration after World War II has brought francophone immigrants from around the world, and with them other [[French dialects]].