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Middle French. 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 ...
Old French ( franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
- Evolved into Middle French by the 14th century
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 exhibits perhaps the most extensive phonetic changes (from Latin) of any of the Romance languages. Similar changes are seen in some of the northern Italian regional languages, such as Lombard or Ligurian. Most other Romance languages are significantly more conservative phonetically, with Spanish, Italian, and especially Sardinian ...
Gallo-romanceContext 1Proto-frenchLater Old French/a/closed/a//a//a/open/æ//ɛ//a/before Gallo-Romance /u, o/ or /w//ɔ//ɔ/, combines with next element (/w, u, .../a/palatal + open/iæ//jɛ/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.
v. t. e. Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, Medieval literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. The material and cultural conditions in France and associated territories around the year 1100 ...
