Old French - Wikipedia
WEBOld French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a group of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
History of French - Wikipedia
WEBFrankish had a determining influence on the birth of Old French, which partly explains that Old French is the earliest-attested Romance language, such as in the Oaths of Strasbourg and Sequence of Saint Eulalia. The new speech diverged so markedly from the Latin that it was no longer mutually intelligible.
Old French - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBOld French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300. It was then known as the langue d'oïl.
Old French - Wikiwand
WEBOld French ( franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
Phonological history of French - Wikipedia
WEBOnly some of the changes are reflected in the orthography, which generally corresponds to the pronunciation of c. 1100–1200 CE (the Old French period) rather than modern pronunciation. This page documents the phonological history of French from a relatively technical standpoint.
Old French Online - University of Texas at Austin
WEBOld French is one of the earliest attested Romance languages and offers a fascinating field for research in historical linguistics: not only are many of its changes attested in texts, but its linguistic ancestor, Latin, is richly documented as well. 1. Emergence of a New Language. When Rome expanded under Caesar and the Roman emperors, Latin ...
French language - Wikipedia
WEBHistory. French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that evolved out of the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in northern France. The language's early forms include Old French and Middle French .
Old French (12-13C) – Medieval Digital Resources
WEBA dictionary of Middle French (1330-1500) comprising more than 65,000 entries with 470,000 contextual examples. The search function is flexible and allows for orthographic variants. Definitions are given in modern French.
Old French language | Britannica
WEBIn French literature: The origins of the French language. …by the time a recognizable Old French had developed, various dialects had evolved, notably Francien (in the Île-de-France, the region around Paris), Picard, Champenois, and Norman. From the last one stemmed Anglo-Norman, the French used alongside English in Britain, especially …
Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français - Wikipedia
WEBThe Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-sixties of the 20th century and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany).
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