My grandmother spoke French. My grandfather spoke French. They also spoke Creole, that is, a broken French. In the country they had another French, was called Cajun Barker pronouces it "ki-jeune. "] Different varieties of French. There was, say, bread in different . . . about five different ways of saying bread or of saying meat, saying vegetable, saying potatoes, different varieties of the broken-off language of the French. The French once controlled this area, and naturally they spoke French here.