French language

Romance language

Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century

international organization

class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|The word onomatopoeia with the œ ligature Œ (minuscule: œ), in English known as ethel or œthel (also spelt ēðel or odal), is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words. These usages continue in English and French. In French, the words that were borrowed from Latin and contained the Latin diphthong written as œ now generally have é or è; but œ is still used in some non-learned French words, representing open-

thumb|upright=1.8|Geographic distribution of the [[French language:

system of sounds of the French language

dialect of French mainly spoken in Canada

dialect of French spoken in Switzerland

The Duchy of Orléanais () is a former province of France, which was created during the Renaissance by merging four former counties and towns. However after the French Revolution, the province was dissolved in 1791 and succeeded by five départments (less some communes to others).

dialect of the French language spoken in Belgium

A Gallicism can be: a mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; in general, a French mode or custom. a loanword, word or phrase borrowed from French.

orthography of the French language

thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school

simplified version of French

thumb|An immigrant couple living in Massachusetts, [[United States, speaking a version of Chiac.]] Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq) is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Chiac is frequently characterized and distinguished from other forms of Acadian French by its borrowings from English and is thus often mistakenly considered a form of Franglais.

manual alphabet

French language dialect

national academy for the French language in Belgium

dialects

form of French used worldwide

usage of a diacritic in the French language