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Jèrriais is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands archipelago off the coast of France. Its closest relatives are the other Norman languages, such as Guernésiais, spoken in neighbouring Guernsey, and the other langues d'oïl.
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Jèrriais literature is literature in Jèrriais, the Norman dialect of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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- George d'la Forge: Guardian of the Jersey Norman heritage – A study of the life and writings of George Francis Le Feuvre (1891–1984), Annette Torode, Jersey, 2003, ISBN 978-1-904210-01-6