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Louisiana was first discovered by the French in 1684. To this population was added a few hundred French people deported from Acadia in Canada (now Nova Scotia). The name Cajun comes from Cadien, the name of the Acadian exiles.

Other French speakers from St Domingue/Haiti, and non-French speakers from many different cultures later joined the fray and contributed to what is now the Cajun language, which is hard to recognize to a French speaker from France.

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