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French is a modern natural language and a subclass of Oïl, Gallo-Romance, and Romance languages. It is indigenous to the Brussels-Capital Region, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, and Province of Liege. The language is spoken in France, Switzerland, Canada, and Benin. Its native labels are français and langue française. It is also referred to by short names including французский, французька, fransızca, and френски.
The language employs a subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative, syllabic, and fusional typology. It features feminine and masculine grammatical genders and utilizes the subjunctive, indicative, imperative, and conditional moods. Tenses include the present tense, preterite, imperfect, and passé composé. French uses the French alphabet and applies capitalization to proper nouns. Regulatory bodies include the Académie Française, Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises, and Office québécois de la langue française.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Romance languages
- Part of
- Oïl
- Country
- United States
- Follows
- Classical French
- Image
- JO199411392.png
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- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Wiktionary:About French
- topic's main category
- Category:French language
- linguistic typology
- synthetic language
- language regulatory body
- Office québécois de la langue française
- category for films in this language
- Category:French-language films
- has grammatical gender
- masculine
- native label
- langue française
- Commons category
- French language
- has grammatical mood
- participle
- short name
- французская
- history of topic
- history of French
- has tense
- past participle
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Wikimedia language code
- fr
- indigenous to
- Flemish Brabant
- different from
- French
- P10369
- England
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 153299770
- P8168
- EFL Cup
- P11012
- Pacific Ocean
- entry in abbreviations table
- fr.
- social media followers
- 186974
- has characteristic
- agreement
- P13311
- Mars
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/french
- Stack Exchange site URL
- french.stackexchange.com
- category for music in this language
- Category:Francophone music
- female form of label
- la langue française
- male form of label
- le français
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C123785
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Encyclopedic overview
French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, French and its closest relatives—the langues d'oïl, historically spoken in northern France and southern Belgium—descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Over time, French largely supplanted these regional relatives.
It was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were developed. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
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