Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Region Ethnic group(s) Aeolic Greek: Indo-European: 300 BC [citation needed] Aeolis, Boeotia, Lesbos, Thessaly: Aeolians: Aequian: Indo-European: 200s BC [1] East-central Italy: Aequi: Akkala Sámi: Uralic: 29 December 2003 [2] Southwest Kola Peninsula: Akkala Sámi: Alavese: Basque (language isolate ...
The name France comes from Latin Francia (' land of the Franks '). Originally it applied to the whole Empire of the Franks, extending from southern France to eastern Germany. Modern France is still called Frankreich in German and similar names in some other Germanic languages (such as Frankrijk in Dutch), which means "Frank Reich", the Realm of ...
Ireland, the first official language of Ireland is Irish, with the second being English. [275] English is the first language of the vast majority of the population. Luxembourg is a rare example of a truly trilingual society, in that it not only has three official languages – Luxembourgish , French and German [ 276 ] – but has a trilingual ...
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language.
In addition to French, several regional languages are also spoken to varying degrees, such as Alsatian, a German dialect (specifically Alemannic; spoken by 1.44% of the national population); Basque, a language isolate; Breton, a Celtic language (spoken by 0.61%); Corsican, an Italo-Dalmatian language; and various other Gallo-Romance languages ...
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
Irish was also listed in that treaty and all subsequent EU treaties as one of the authentic languages of the treaties. [29] As a Treaty Language, Irish was an official procedural language of the European Court of Justice. [30] It was also possible to correspond in written Irish with the EU Institutions. [citation needed]
One of his successors, named Clovis I, would take over the roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis (in modern day France). Outnumbered by the local populace, the ruling Franks there would adapt to its language which was a Proto-Romance dialect. However, many modern French words and place names are still of Frankish origin.