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| Question | Answer |
| French | The official language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and 26 other countries. |
| Gaul | The area where French has been estimated to have originated. Most of its territory is modern-day France. |
| Noric | variety of Gaulish spoken in Noricum. There is not much evidence of it, as the only evidence known is in Austria and Slovenia. |
| Galatian | spoken in Galatia (red zone), which is today central Anatolia. It was introduced in the 3rd century BC when Celtic tribes migrated from the Balkans. It would be spoken until at least the 4th century AD, although some speculate it went extinct in the 6th century. |
| Lepontic | an ancient Alpine Celtic language that was spoken in parts of Rhaetia and Cisalpine Gaul (now Northern Italy) between 550 and 100 BC. Lepontic is attested in inscriptions found in an area centered on Lugano, Switzerland, and including the Lake Como and Lake Maggiore areas of Italy |
| Transalpine | Its written record begins in the 3rd century BC with inscriptions in Greek script, found mainly in the Rhône area of southern France, where Greek cultural influence was present via the colony of Massilia, founded circa 600 BC. |
| Cisalpine | The Celtic Cisalpine Gaulish inscriptions are frequently combined with the Lepontic inscriptions under the term Celtic language remains in northern Italy. While it is possible that the Lepontii were autochthonous to Northern Italy since the end of the 2nd millennium BC, it is known from ancient sources that the Gauls invaded the regions north of the river Po in several waves since the 5th century BC. They apparently took over the art of writing from the Lepontii, including some of the orthographic peculiarities. |
| Langues d'oïl | the languages that were spoken in Northern France |
| Frankish zone/zone francique | Picard, Walloon, Lorrain, Northern Norman (Anglo-Norman French, Guernésiais, Jèrriais, Auregnais, Sercquiais), Eastern Champenois |
| Francien zone/zone francienne | Standard French + Orléanais, Tourangeau, Berrichon, Bourbonnais, Western Champenois/Eastern Francien |
| Burgundian zone/zone burgonde | Burgundian/Bourguignon & Franc-Comtois/Frainc-Comtou |
| Armorican zone/zone armoricaine | Angevin, Mayennais, Manceau (Sarthois, Percheron), Southern Norman - Eastern Armorican Gallo - Western Armorican |
| Poitevin-Saintongeais zone/zone poitevine & zone saintongeaise | Poitevin & Saintongeais |
| Langues d'oc/Occitan | the language used in southern France, and also in Monaco, the Occitan Valleys in Italy, and Val d'Aran in Spain. |
| Auvergnat | dialect spoken in Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Allier, Cantal, and communities in Limousin |
| Gascon | dialect spoken in Gascony |
| Aranese | sub-dialect of Gascon spoken in the Val d'Aran |
| Languedocien | dialect spoken in the South of France |
| Limousin | the dialect spoken in the three departments of Limousin, and parts of Charente and Dordogne |
| Provençal | dialect spoken in Provence and parts of Drôme |
| Nicard | sub-dialect of Provençal spoken in the County of Nice and Monaco |
| Vivaro-Alpine | dialect spoken in southeastern France (namely near the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria) |
| Shuadit | spoken in the South of France, specifically the Jews of the area. It went extinct in 1977 after its last native speaker died. |
| Franks | members of a Germanic people that conquered Gaul in the 6th century and controlled much of western Europe for several centuries afterward. |
| Alemanni | a confederation of Suebian Germanic tribes located on the upper Rhine river. |
| Burgundians | a member of a Germanic people that invaded Gaul from the east and established the kingdom of Burgundy in the 5th century. |
| Visigoths | a member of the branch of the Goths who invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries ad and ruled much of Spain until overthrown by the Moors in 711. |
| Frankish | the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century. It had a profound influence on the Latin spoken in their regions by altering both pronunciation (especially the vowel system) and syntax. |
| Oaths of Strasburg | a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the successor of Charlemagne. The Romance section of the Oaths is of special importance to historical linguistics, as it is the oldest extant document in France that was written deliberately and consistently in a form of Romance. |
| Sequence/Canticle of Saint Eulalia | the earliest surviving piece of French hagiography and one of the earliest extant texts in the vernacular langues d'oïl (Old French). It dates from around 880. The Sequence was composed in verse around 880, soon after the rediscovery of the relics of a saint of the same name, Eulalia of Barcelona, in 878. |
| Old French | the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. |
| Middle French | a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the 14th to the 16th century. |
| Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts | an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of France on August 10, 1539, in the city of Villers-Cotterêts, and the oldest French legislation still used partly by French courts. It made French the language of law, replacing Latin. |
| Jacques Pel(l)etier du Mans | tried to reform French spelling in his 1550 treatise Dialogue de l'ortografe e prononciation françoese ("Dialogue on French spelling and pronunciation"), advocating a phonetic-based spelling using new typographic signs which he would continue to use in all his published works. |
| Robert Estienne | the author of the first French-Latin dictionary, Dictionaire francoislatin, published in 1540. |
| lingua franca | a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages. French held this role from the 17th century until the mid-20th century |
| New France/Nouvelle-France | the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. |
| Académie Française | the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was restored as a division of the Institut de France in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It is the oldest of the five académies of the institute. |
| Franglais | a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais). |
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