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Middle French ( French: moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century. [1] [2] It is a period of transition during which: the literary development of French prepared the vocabulary and grammar for the Classical French ( le français classique) spoken in the ...
- evolved into Modern French by the early 17th century
Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) A dictionary of Middle French (1330-1500) comprising more than 65,000 entries with 470,000 contextual examples. The search function is flexible and allows for orthographic variants. Definitions are given in modern French.
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Francien dialect, the medieval dialect of Old French that furnishes the basis for the literary and official form of the modern French language.Francien was spoken in the region of Île-de-France, which included the city of Paris, and its preeminence is an indication of the political and intellectual prominence of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Middle French is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century. It is a period of transition during which:the French language became clearly distinguished from the other competing Oïl languages, which are sometimes subsumed within the concept of Old French the French language was imposed as the official language of the Kingdom ...
t. e. French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.
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- Signed French, (français signé)
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In the Late Middle Ages, the Old French dialects diverged into a number of distinct langues d'oïl, among which Middle French proper was the dialect of the Île-de-France region. During the Early Modern period , French was established as the official language of the Kingdom of France throughout the realm, including the langue d'oc -speaking ...
Blog post in which to hear a manuscript read in the original Middle French. Hear a 15th-century book of chivalric adventures as it was originally meant to be experienced—read aloud in Middle French Medieval Manuscripts Alive: Middle French | Getty News
