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Preferred term

froOld French  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French ) was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century. It was then known as the langue doïl (oïl language) to distinguish it from the langue doc (Occitan language, also then called Provençal), whose territory bordered that of Old French to the south. The Norman dialect was also spread to England, Ireland, the Kingdom of Sicily and the Principality of Antioch in the Levant.

Entry terms

  • French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
  • French, Old (842-ca.1400)
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400)

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • fro

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • fro

ISO 639-3 code

  • fro

Notation

  • fro

In other languages

  • ancien français

    French

  • Ancien français
  • français ancien (842-ca.1400)
  • Altfranzösisch

    German

  • Altfranzösische Sprache
  • francese antico

    Italian

  • Antico francese
  • Portuguese

  • francês arcaico
  • francés antiguo

    Spanish

  • Francés antiguo

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fro

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