Académie du Jèrriais

The Académie du Jèrriais has been set up in order to adjudicate and advise on usage, neologisms, definitions and language questions in order to provide a reliable source of guidance for language planning purposes. At its first meeting the panel considered a list of environmental vocabulary consisting of phrases attested (but not yet added to the dictionary) or suggested, and English expressions for which a Jèrriais equivalent was sought. Here are the recommendations of the first tranche of phrases (these do not replace existing phrases or words, but may supplement existing usages)

big cats	les grands cats
sea mammals	les mammiféthes dé mé
exotic fish	les paîssons exotiques
deep-sea fish	les paîssons d'profonde mé
rare species	l's espêces rares
industrial fishing	la pêque îndustrielle
a safari	un safari
a collector	un collecteux
a trophy	eune coupe
trafficking	la trafiqu'thie
poaching	la chasse illégale
to poach	chasser/ pêtchi illégalement
to dwindle	molli
to disappear, to become instinct	dispathaître
captive	en captivité
helpless	sans souôtchien / sans souôtchein