{"id":599561,"date":"2026-05-23T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599561\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:33:24","slug":"jersey-film-hopes-to-save-islands-native-language-jerriais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599561\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey film hopes to save island&#8217;s native language Jerriais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The feature length documentary captures the stories and voices of people who still speak J\u00e8rriais. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spink said the stories in the film would always stay with him: &#8220;They told us about how they were beaten in school for speaking the language. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They told us about how they were discouraged from ever using it, from teaching it to their children,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added <a href=\"https:\/\/societe.je\/a-betot-goodbye\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the film, external<\/a> explored how the language is still part of island life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of our folklore is written only in J\u00e8rriais,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So if there&#8217;s nobody who understands the language, nobody who speaks it, we lose the sense of what those things mean and we lose part of our island&#8217;s story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described J\u00e8rriais as &#8220;fundamental&#8221; to Jersey&#8217;s identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Without J\u00e8rriais, Jersey would be indistinguishable from another part of Britain. We do have our beautiful landscapes and unique population, but in many ways it would be harder to recognise Jersey as different without the language&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The feature length documentary captures the stories and voices of people who still speak J\u00e8rriais. Spink said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}