History of French
Overview of the history of the French language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the history and evolution of the French language. For the history of the French people, see French people. For the history of the French culture, see culture of France.
French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.
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The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected the languages, and "internal history", describing the phonological and grammatical changes undergone by the language itself.