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Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language , Old French was a group of Romance dialects , mutually intelligible yet diverse .
This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.
A short word list was collected by James King in 1778. 1823: Xhosa: John Bennie's Xhosa reading sheet: Complete Bible translation 1859 c. 1833: Vai: Vai syllabary created by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. 1833: Sotho: reduced to writing by French missionaries Casalis and Arbousset: First grammar book 1841 and complete Bible translation 1881 1837: Zulu
This article is a list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers, ... Ancient Belgian: Indo-European ... French Jews: Formerly extinct
French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.. The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected the languages, and "internal history", describing the ...
A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...
Frankish; Old Franconian, Old Frankish *Frenkisk Native to: Francia: Region: Western Europe: Ethnicity: Franks: Era: Gradually evolved into Old Low Franconian and the Old High Franconian dialects (Rhine Franconian, East Franconian and Central Franconian) by the 9th century, [1] [2] which dissolved with other West Germanic varieties into Old High German, and influenced Old French as a superstrate.
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...