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Where are you coming up with 20 different dialects of French? Are you talking about the various French-based creole languages, which are totally separate langua
by umanwizard 7y ago
Where are you coming up with 20 different dialects of French? Are you talking about the various French-based creole languages, which are totally separate languages (e.g., someone from France has essentially no hope of understanding a native Hatian Creole speaker). If that's what you mean it's a bit silly to call them "dialects" instead of "separate languages" because Haitian Creole and French are as different as English and French.
Or are you talking about the various regional languages/dialects/"patois" in France? If so, sure, many could be called "dialects of French" but they aren't spoken at all outside of France so it isn't really relevant to Quebec.
- dmytroi 7y agoI'm referring to a fact that before economical needs created unified time / measurement system / language, each region had their own language-dialect. For example Gallo-Romance languages and so on [0]. - [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France
- umanwizard 7y agoYes, you're right. And those dialects still exist; I know people (born before WWII in semi-rural areas) whose first language was something so different from the standard that it'd have been very difficult for someone from Paris to understand. But as far as I know, none of them are spoken in Quebec...