The language was the subject of fieldwork by linguist Barbara Bullock, the co-author of a range of journal articles relating to phonological patterns observed in French dialects.
The settlement of Frenchville, Covington Township was established in 1835 by Messrs Zavron and John Keaton in order to settle a debt made by a person in Philadelphia.
Zavron, who was a merchant in Paris, France, persuaded around 40 families to emigrate to the property within five years with the help of a German agent.
[6] Frenchville is hidden by hills and is not surrounded by major cities or landmarks, but visitors can see a graveyard containing a life sized Christ figure on a large cross that overlooks the enclosed town.
Finally, the third person plural subject pronoun is no longer ils (masculine) and elles (feminine), but eux.
[3][2][1] The questions asked involved the brothers' family, work, and memories of Frenchville as a bilingual community.
‘If my grandfather and mother and my father didn’t pronounce as they should have, we didn’t pronounce as one should either.’[1] This sentence was used as evidence for overuse of the infinitive for verb: Ma femme ne parler [INF] pas; sa femme ne parler [INF] pas.