French
Language
French
alphabet, French orthography, French language history and
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French
language
French:
It is one of the romance languages with national standing as
the official tongue of
Number
of French Speakers: 98 million speakers living principally
in French Alphabet: The French alphabet has the same 26 letters as the English alphabet, but they are pronounced differently. French Orthography: Hollyband regularly marks silent letters by placing a small cross underneath consonants and vowels that are to be left silent.
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French
Language History: The emergence of accentual patterns led to
the reduction or loss of many unstressed vowels. Only in
French and Portuguese, however, did vowels before a nasal
consonant undergo nasalization--compare French main, "hand,"
with Portuguese mao and Spanish and Italian mano.
French
Language Enriched by: Latin language. Unique Features of French: In southern France, Provençal, or Occitan, it is spoken by about 12 million people. Formerly more unified as a literary language, Provençal now consists of a series of local dialects.
French
language is included in the
Speech Assessment Methods
Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable
phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based
on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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