inflected hybrid dialect. Today, 15,000 descendants of French settlers live in the province, and there is a movement to reestablish the Newfoundland dialect as the French language of education in the province. However, schoolchildren in the province are currently being introduced to either standard Quebec French, or to a heavily Acadian-influenced variety thereof. Characteristics According to Patrice Brasseur's articles " Les Représentations linguistiques des francophones de la péninsule de Port-au-Port " (2007) and "Quelques aspects de la situation linguistique dans la communauté franco-terreneuvienne " (1995) as well as according to the French Academy, some characteristics of French in Newfoundland can be kept in mind: the affrication of [k], noted tch or, most often, ch (with the frequent examples of cœur and quinze and cuiller and cuisine), the widespread use of English terms, the progressive extinction of the subjunctive form the use of septante, octante, and nonante See also Canadian French Acadian French Notes and references Notes References Bibliography Profil Port-au-port 2009 French Presence in Newfoundland The Two Traditions: The Art of Storytelling Amongst French Newfoundlanders By Gerald Thomas Le français parlé au 21e siècle By Michaël Abecassis, Laure Ayosso, Élodie Vialleton The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing. King, Ruth Elizabeth. Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland. Greenleaf, Elizabeth Bristol & Grace Yarrow Mansfield. Walking a tightrope: aboriginal people and their representations. David McNab, Ute Lischke. Entrevue avec violoniste terre-neuvien Emile Benoit Acadian French French