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French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
Pierre Bonga, a former slave who became a prominent fur trader in Minnesota, 1802–1831. His father, Jean Bonga, had been born in the West Indies and was brought to Michilimackinac in the Great Lakes by Captain Daniel Robertson who was the post’s first British commander following the fall of the French in North America in 1763.
L'Étoile du Nord is a French phrase meaning "The Star of the North". It is the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota , [ 1 ] and the only U.S. state motto in French. It was chosen by the state's first governor, Henry Hastings Sibley , and adopted in 1861, three years after Minnesota's admission to the union. [ 2 ]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The culture of Minnesota is a subculture of the United States with influences from Scandinavian Americans, Finnish Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, Native Americans, Czechoslovak Americans, among numerous other immigrant groups. They work in the context of the cold agricultural and mining state. People In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre May Day Parade, Minneapolis ...
If a strict cot–caught merger is used to define the North-Central regional dialect, it covers the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the northern border of Wisconsin, the whole northern half of Minnesota, some of northern South Dakota, and most of North Dakota; [3] otherwise, the dialect may be considered to extend to all of Minnesota, North Dakota ...
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of French Canadian Americans in Minnesota. Pages in category "French-Canadian culture in Minnesota" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French . Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels , and three processes affecting word-final sounds: