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Jèrriais

variety of Norman spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands
Language dialect Q56430
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Summary

Jèrriais is a dialect[1]. Jèrriais ranks in the top 6% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,956 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: natural language[3], modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: insular Norman[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6]
  • Commons category: Jèrriais[7]
  • Wikimedia language code: nrf-je[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Jèrriais[9]
  • Commons gallery: Jèrriais[10]
  • Language regulatory body: Société Jersiaise[11]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1920[12], 2800[13], 2874[14]
  • Native label: Jèrriais[15]
  • UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[16]
  • Indigenous to: Jersey[17]
  • Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133094715[18]
  • Ethnologue language status: 8a Moribund[19]
  • Dialect of: Norman[20]
  • Has grammatical gender: masculine[21], feminine[22]
  • Related category: Category:Jèrriais pronunciation[23]

Why It Matters

Jèrriais has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Jèrriais is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . gov.je. Retrieved . gov.je. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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