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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
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 ...
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 mid-14th centuries. Rather than a unified language , Old French was a group of Romance dialects , mutually intelligible yet diverse .
The DEAF can be typologised as a descriptive dictionary of Old French focussing more on linguistic than on traditional philological aspects. However it systematically includes encyclopedic information in semantic analysis and above all by providing a great number of citations serving to illustrate and corroborate senses given in (usually scholastic) definitions. [3]
Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ...
9 languages. Cymraeg; فارسی ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Old French texts" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of ...
This Colloquial Latin language acquired the name of the people who came to speak it (Frankish or Français); north of the French-Dutch language boundary, the language was no longer referred to as "Frankish" (if it ever was referred to as such) but rather came to be referred to as "Diets", i.e. the "people's language". [22]