Langenesis

Indo-European family

French

1600 CE – today Living

French (1600 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Old French → Middle French → French.

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Speakers
310M (310,000,000)
ISO 639-3
fra
Glottocode
stan1290

Modern French (1600–present), standardised under the Académie française (1635). Middle French is tracked as the predecessor node.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
  3. Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  4. Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
  5. Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
  6. Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
  7. Old French800 CE – 1350 CE
  8. Middle Frenchc. 1350 CE – 1600 CE
  9. French1600 CE – today

Descendants 1

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