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The 2004 census of Morocco found that 39.5% of the population aged 10 and older could read and write French. [63] Spoken mainly in cities among the upper middle class, French is the medium of instruction of two-thirds of courses in higher education, including science and technology, health, economics and management, although the adoption of ...
At the end of the Middle Ages, France was the most populous region [clarification needed] in Europe—having overtaken Spain and Italy by 1340. [2] In the 14th century, before the arrival of the Black Death, the total population of the area covered by modern-day France has been estimated at 16 million. [3] The population of Paris is ...
Languages spoken in Eurasia and North Africa during the Middle Ages (roughly AD 600–1500). ... Old French; Middle French; Old Frisian; G.
The Middle Ages also saw the influence of other linguistic groups on the dialects of France. Modern French, which was derived mainly from the langue d'oïl, acquired the word si to contradict negative statements or respond to negative questions, from cognate forms of "yes" in Spanish and Catalan (sí), Portuguese (sim), and Italian (sì).
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 .
Arabic, especially the Maghrebi Arabic dialects, is the second-most common language in French homes, with several million speakers. [12] Berber languages from North Africans are one of the most spoken languages in France, about 2,200,000 speakers.
Up to roughly 1340, the Romance languages spoken in the Middle Ages in the northern half of what is today France are collectively known as "ancien français" ("Old French") or "langues d'oïl" (languages where one says "oïl" to mean "yes"); following the Germanic invasions of France in the fifth century, these Northern dialects had developed distinctly different phonetic and syntactical ...
Dutch is spoken throughout the Netherlands, the northern half of Belgium, as well as the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France. The traditional dialects of the Lower Rhine region of Germany are linguistically more closely related to Dutch than to modern German. In Belgian and French contexts, Dutch is sometimes referred to as Flemish.