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The langues d'oïl (/ d ɔɪ (l)/ doy(l), US also / d ɔː ˈ iː l / daw-EEL, French: [lɑ̃ɡ dɔjl]) are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest autochthonous relatives historically spoken in the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands.
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Langue d'oïl (in the singular), Oïl dialects and Oïl languages (in the plural) refer to all the ancient northern Gallo-Romance languages as well as their modern-day descendants. The most widely spoken modern Oïl language is French, but others include Norman, Walloon, Picard, Gallo, Poitevin-Saintongeais, and Champenois .
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The langues d'oïl ( / dɔɪ ( l )/ doy (l), US also / dɔːˈiːl / daw-EEL, French: [ lɑ̃ɡ dɔjl]) are a dialect continuum that includes standard French and its closest autochthonous relatives historically spoken in the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands.
The Burgundian language, also known by French names Bourguignon-morvandiau, Bourguignon, and Morvandiau, is an Oïl language spoken in Burgundy and particularly in the Morvan area of the region. The arrival of the Burgundians brought Germanic elements into the Gallo-Romance speech of the inhabitants.
La langue d'oïl comprend l'ancien français populaire de Paris du XVIIe siècle, qui est l'ancêtre du français d'Europe et du français d'Amérique (sauf en ce qui concerne le français acadien, voir plus bas 14 et le wallon du Wisconsin ).
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- À partir du IXᵉ siècle
Langues d'oïl (which literally means in English: "languages of yes") is the linguistic and historical name for the Gallo-Romance languages which developed from Latin in the northern territories of Roman Gaul that now are occupied by northern France, part of Belgium and the Channel Islands.
Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse. These dialects came to be collectively known as the langues d'oïl, contrasting with the langues d'oc, the emerging Occitano-Romance languages of Occitania, now the south of France.
