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  2. Help:IPA/French - Wikipedia

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    For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.

  3. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  4. Numbers: The Universal Language - Wikipedia

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    Numbers: The Universal Language (French: L'empire des nombres, lit. 'The Empire of Numbers') is a 1996 illustrated monograph on numbers and their history.Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 300th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons ...

  5. French language - Wikipedia

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    After the use of unique names for the numbers 1–16, those from 17 to 69 are counted by tens, while twenty (vingt) is used as a base number in the names of numbers from 70 to 99. The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally "four twenties", and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally "sixty-fifteen".

  6. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Number of phonemes in Modern Standard Arabic. ... French: Indo-European: 34 + (1)

  7. 100 chic French baby names for girls and what they mean - AOL

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    100 French baby girl names. Here are 100 French names and their interpreted meanings. Pick one for your petite fille! Vivienne — Alive. Simone — To listen. Belle — Beauty. Henriette ...

  8. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    1.2.2 French. 1.2.3 Italian. 1.2.3.1 ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... sometimes slightly altering the name for pronunciation purposes. At ...

  9. 50 French Baby Names That Are Prime for an American Takeover

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    Twenty20. Elize is a French variant of Elizabeth, and therefore befitting a queen. It means “my God is an oath.” 21. Solene. Ultra hip yet under the radar, like Solange—this name means ...