DO PEOPLE SPEAK FRENCH IN LAFAYETTE?
Mais ouis. You’ll hear it sung more often than spoken in the general arena. But if you talk to the right people and go to the right places, you’ll find folks who speak it. Mostly older people speak Cajun and/or Creole French though there are some exceptions. The younger generation which has relatively recently picked up on the language of it’s grandparents will speak a melange of Parisian, Cajun, Acadian, Creole, Quebecois, African – depending on who their teachers were…. an imported “French” teacher, a grandparent, or an old Dennis McGee recording.
