French

The French language in the world

  Regions where French is the main language

  Regions where it is an official language

  Regions where it is a second language

  Regions where it is a minority language

French, or la langue française, 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 spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French has largely supplanted.

Resources

• Alphabet
• Ballade des Pendus
• Ce
• Ce que
• Courses
• Davantage
• De plus en plus de
• Diactrics
• Division News/Archives
• En
• Food and Drinks
• Gender
• Greetings
• Inverted question
• Lecture/Le roi danse
• List of words whose meaning depends on gender
• Mentoring
• Mentoring/Participants
• Numbers
• Old
• Phrase Books
• Phrase Books/Common TV and Radio Phrases
• Telling Time
• Translation
• Updates/Archives
• Wall Charts and Posters
• Wall Charts and Posters/Conjugation of Aimer (Complete)
• Wall Charts and Posters/Conjugation of Avoir (Complete)
• Wall Charts and Posters/Conjugation of Finir (Complete)
• Wall Charts and Posters/Conjugation of Servir (Complete)
• Wall Charts and Posters/Conjugation of Être (Complete)

See Also

• Portal: French
• Wikipedia: French language