Flashcards: French language

Middle French (French: moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries.

International Francophonie Day (French: Journée internationale de la Francophonie) is observed within the International Organization of La Francophonie's 77 member states every March 20 to celebrate the French language and Francophone culture.

The Académie française (French pronunciation: ​[akademi fʁɑ̃ˈsɛz]), known in English as the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language.

Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e.

Meridional French (French: français méridional), is a regional variant of the French language.

Antillean Creole is a French-based creole, which is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.

Louisiana Creole (kréyol la lwizyàn; French: créole louisianais) is a French-based creole language spoken by some of the Creole people of the state of Louisiana.

Orléanais (French pronunciation: ​[ɔʁleanɛ]) is a former province of France, around the cities of Orléans, Chartres, and Blois.

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French ancien français) was the Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the 14th century.

Vulgar Latin or Sermo Vulgaris ("common speech") is a generic term for the nonstandard (as opposed to classical) sociolects of Latin from which the Romance languages developed.

Cajuns (/ˈkeɪdʒən/; French: les Cadiens or Les Cadiens or les Acadiens, [le kadʒɛ̃, lez‿akadʒɛ̃]) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.

The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia francophone, Wikipédia en français) is the French language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Cajun French (French: français cadien/français cadjin) (commonly called Louisiana Regional French, and related to but distinct from the historical Colonial, or Plantation Society, French) is a variety of the French language spoken primarily in Louisiana, specifically in the southern parishes.

French Guianese Creole is a French-lexified creole language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree, in Suriname and Guyana.

Acadiana, or The Heart of Acadiana (Cajun French: L'Acadiane), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that is home to a large Francophone population.

Pied-Noir (French pronunciation: ​[pjenwaʁ], Black-Foot), plural Pieds-Noirs, is a term referring to Christian and Jewish people whose families had migrated from all parts of the Mediterranean to French Algeria, the French protectorate in Morocco, or the French protectorate of Tunisia, where many had lived for several generations, and who were expelled at the end of French rule in North Africa between 1956 and 1962.

The International Francophone Press Union (French: Union internationale de la presse francophone, UPF) is a Francophone association of journalists.

Dominican Creole French is a French-based creole, which is the generally spoken language in Dominica.

Saint Lucian Creole French is a French-based creole, which is the generally spoken language in Saint Lucia.

Linotte is an interpreted 4th generation programming language.

Réunion Creole or Reunionese Creole (Réunion creole: kréol rénioné, French: créole réunionnais) is a creole language spoken on Réunion.

Haitian French (French: français haïtien, Haitian Creole: fransè ayisyen) is the variety of French spoken in Haiti.

Around 45% of English vocabulary is of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English.

Lanc-Patuá is a creole language spoken in the state of Amapá in Brazil, primarily now around the capital, Macapá.

Zarphatic or Judeo-French (Zarphatic: Tzarfatit) is an extinct Jewish language, formerly spoken among the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany, such as Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, and Aachen.

A belgicism (known in French and Dutch as a belgicisme) is a word, expression, or turn of phrase that is unique to Belgian French.

Signed French (Français Signé), is any of at least three manually coded forms of French that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to French word order or grammar.