The phonology of Quebec French is more complex than that of French of France. Quebec French has maintained phonemic distinctions between /a/ and /ɑ/, /ɛ/ and /ɛː/, /ø/ and /ə/, /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/. The latter of each pair has disappeared in Parisian French, and only the last distinction has been maintained in Meridional French.
Vowels[]
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Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar/ Uvular | ||
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| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | |
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | ||
| Approximant | plain | l | j | ||
| labial | ɥ | w | |||
| Rhotic | /R/ (apical or dorsal, see below) | ||||