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Spoken near Quebec, mostly around the Ontario/Quebec border -- its main substrates are English and French | Spoken near Quebec, mostly around the Ontario/Quebec border -- its main substrates are English and French | ||
Notably, English and French words that happen to be cognate with Esperanto words are not phonetically adapted to or merged with their Esperanto counterparts, they're often treated as separate lexical items with specialized meanings. | Notably, English and French words that happen to be cognate with Esperanto words are not phonetically adapted to or merged with their Esperanto counterparts, they're often treated as separate lexical items with specialized meanings. Sometimes Esperanto words that are very close to English or French, especially in pronunciation, are considered lower register and are often substituted with more "native Esperanto" formations, such as ''eco'' instead of ''esenco'' (essence), ''ulo'' instead of ''homo'' (person). | ||
Grammatically, Canadian Creole Esperanto has some unique features that come about from English and French influence: | |||
*the preposition 'de' is extended as a partitive marker | |||
*the accusative is completely lost, with -n becoming a generic locative/directional case: ''Mi iris manĝaĵaron Merkredon'' (I went to the grocery store on Wednesday) | |||