Franais: A Romance Language

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Français A Romance Language

• Jenna Hase

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FAMILY
INDO-EUROPEAN
ITALIC
LATIN
FRENCH
INDO-EUROPEAN
OR
ITALIC
ROMANCE
ITALO-WESTERN
WESTERN
GALLO-IBERIAN
GALLO-ROMANCE
GALLO-RHAETIAN
OIL
FRENCH
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Rise of Français

• Roman Empire Gaul France
• Invasion of Gaul by Germanic Tribes Frankish
  establishment (400 AD)
  
• Latin with Germanic Flavor (400 words extant
  today)
  
• Grammar charges harder to speak understand
• Resulted in written codification of evolving
  language
  
• Advanced into French Language - spoken in the
  north (9th Cent)
  

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Growth of Français

• 842 AD - Strasbourg Oaths
• 10th 11th Cent. - Documents Literature
  writings
  
• 12th 13th Cent. - dominant language of English
  Administrations (Feudal Power)
  
• 1200 - Chanson de Roland - 1st Great French
  Lit. Work
  
• 14th 15th Cent. - French replaced Latin
  (texts)
  
• 16th Cent. - Development Standardization - SVO
• 17th 18th Cent. -Fixed grammar - international
  language (Political Reasons)
  
• 1789 - 1918 - fixed pronunciation - official
  language in African Francophone countries

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Latin to French A Phonetic Change

• 200 Phonetic Changes
• Suppression of vowels (before after stressed
  vowel)
  
• anima(m) - anme - âme
• Result Latin - French pronunciation change

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DIALECTS -Standard French -Acadian French
-Norman (Normand) -African French
-Angevin -Asotan French -Berrichon -Belgian
French -Bourbonnas -Cajun French -Bourguign
on -Canadian French -Franc-Comtois -Cambodian
French -Gallo -Indian French -Poitevin
-Jersey Legal French -Santongeais -Lao French
-Lorraine -Maghreb French Metropolitan
French -Meridional French -Newfoundland French -
Quebec French -South East Asia French -Swiss Fre
nch
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Related Languages

• Aranese Aromania Asturian
• Catalan Corsican French
• Friulian Galician Genoese
• Italian Jerrais Latin
• Lombard Mirandese Moldovan
• Occitan Piedmontese Portuguese
• Romanian Romansh Sardinian
• Sicilian Spanish Venetian
• Walloon
• AND all other languages written with
• the Latin alphabet

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LEXICAL SIMILARITY

• -89 w/ Italian
• -80 w/ Sardinian
• -78 w/ Rheto-Romance
• -75 w/ Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
• -29 w/ German
• -27 w/ English

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Spoken Where?

• France, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium,
  Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon,
  Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros,
  Congo, Cote DIvoire, Democratic Republic of
  Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, French
  Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guadeloupe,
  Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lebanon,
  Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique,
  Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, Morocco,
  New Caledonia, Niger, Philippines, Puerto Rico,
  Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi
  Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo,
  Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
  USA, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna

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FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES
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L'alphabet Français
Aa Bb C c D d E e F f G g
? be se de ? ?f
?e
H h Ii J j K k L l M m
N n O o P p
a? i ?i ka ?l ?m
?n o pe
Q q R r S s T t U u V v W w X x Y y
Z z
ky ?? ?s te y ve
dubl?ve iks ig??k z?d

26 Letters 40 Sounds
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Example Text

• La langue français est une femme. Et cette femme
  est si belle, si fière, si modeste, si hardie, si
  touchante, si voluptueuse, si chaste, si noble,
  si familière, si folle, si sage, quon laime de
  toute son âme, et quon nest jamais tente de lui
  être infidèle.

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French Words Within English Language
English is about 30 French

• A la carte on the menu -Genre type
• -Après-ski after skiing -Laissez-faire let
  it be
  
• Bon appétit good appetite -Rendez-vous go to
• Cest la vie thats life -Risqué risked
• Encore again -RSVP respond please
• Faux false/fake -Sans without
• Fiancé(e) engaged -Souvenir Keepsake

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More Borrowed Words
Ballet Words Cooking Words -Barre bar -Bla
nch bleach -Chainé chained -Sauté fried ov
er -Chassé chased high heat -Developpé
developed -Fondue melted -Effacé shaded -Pu
rée crushed -Pas de deux two step -Flambée
burned -Pirouette turn -Plié bent -Relevé
lifted
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Français Aujourdhui

• Still Extant - La Francophonie Countries
• Spoken by 125 million people
• Official Language 25 Countries
• Académie Française PURITY
• Hamburger
• Email
• Microchip

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