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Frankish ( reconstructed endonym: * Frenkisk ), [6] [7] also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century. After the Salian Franks settled in Roman Gaul (roughly, present-day France ), its speakers in Picardy and Île-de-France were outnumbered by the local populace who ...
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- History of French
Frankish (Frankish: Frenkisk) is a now extinct West Germanic language primarily spoken by the Franks from around the 5th century to the 9th century. It was primarily spoken in Francia . After around the 8th and 9th centuries, the Frankish language started to go extinct as it graudaully evolved into Old Dutch.
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The Old Frankish language is poorly attested and mostly reconstructed from Frankish loanwords in Old French, and inherited words in Old Dutch, as recorded in the 9th to 12th centuries. A notable exception is the Bergakker inscription, which may represent a primary record of 5th-century Frankish, though it is debated whether the inscription is ...
French (French: français, pronounced "Fronce-eh") is a Romance language that was first spoken in France. It is also spoken in Belgium ( Wallonia ), Luxembourg, Canada ( Quebec ), Switzerland ( Romandy) and with many different countries in Africa ( Francophone Africa ). About 220 million people speak French as a native or a second language. [3]
