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  1. French language. French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages . The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that ...

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    French knights made up the bulk of the flow of reinforcements throughout the 200-year span of the Crusades, in such a fashion that the Arabs referred to the crusaders as Franj. The French Crusaders imported the French language into the Levant, making French the base of the lingua franca (lit. "Frankish language") of the Crusader states.

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  4. May 5, 2024 · History. The first document apparently written in French probably dates from 842. Known as the Strasbourg Oaths, it is a Romance version of oaths sworn by two of Charlemagne ’s grandsons. Some claim that the text of that document is thinly disguised Latin constructed after the event to look authentic for political propaganda purposes, while ...

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