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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 ...
Claude Fauchet (French pronunciation: [klod foʃɛ]; 3 July 1530 – January 1602) was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. [1] Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581).
The Universality of the French Language (French: Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française) is a 1784 essay by Antoine de Rivarol.He began his discourse by tracing a brief history of the origins of French language, claiming that the Roman conquest and the invasion of the Franks in Gaul contributed to the emergence of a linguistic hierarchy, at the top of which stood Latin.
Ferdinand Brunot (1919) Ferdinand-Eugène-Jean-Baptiste Brunot (6 November 1860 – 7 January 1938) was a French linguist and philologist, editor of the ground-breaking Histoire de la langue française des origines à 1900 ("History of the French Language from its Origins to 1900").
Paul Pimsleur (October 17, 1927 – June 22, 1976) was a French-American linguist and scholar in the field of applied linguistics.He developed the Pimsleur language learning system, which, along with his many publications, had a significant effect upon theories of language learning and teaching.
Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. [23] Many institutions of the EU use French as a working language along with English, German and Italian; in some institutions, French is the sole working language (e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union). [24]
Cover of the 1549 edition. La Défense et illustration de la langue française (French pronunciation: [la defɑ̃s e ilystʁasjɔ̃ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz], The defense and illustration of the French language) is a literary theory text written during the Renaissance in 1549 by the French poet Joachim du Bellay.
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...