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The Île-de-France (/ ˌ iː l d ə ˈ f r ɒ̃ s /; French: [il də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; lit. ' Island of France ') is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. [1]
The history of Île-de-France (Isle of France) dates back to the medieval period. The name Isle de France is first recorded in 1387, when the term "France" designated certain crown territories . Literally, the name "Island of France" was derived from its being bordered by the rivers Seine , Oise and Marne (tributaries of the Seine) and ...
It is not until the 19th and 20th centuries that the language of Île-de-France indeed became the language of the whole country France. In modern French, the French language is called [le] français, while the old language of Île-de-France is called by the name applied to it according to a 19th-century theory on the origin of the French ...
Romanisation: Francia: Language(s) French: Origin; Language(s) Developed from the settlement of Romanized Franks in Île-de-France.: Word/name: Due to the influence of Paris as capital of France, its Romance language gradually spread over the whole country as a standard language, especially after the French Revolution.
The term Francien is a linguistic neologism coined in the 19th century to name the hypothetical variant of Old French allegedly spoken by the late 14th century in the ancient province of Pays de France—the then Paris region later called Île-de-France. This Francien, it is claimed, became the Medieval French language.
One of his successors, named Clovis I, would take over the roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis (in modern day France). Outnumbered by the local populace, the ruling Franks there would adapt to its language which was a Proto-Romance dialect. However, many modern French words and place names are still of Frankish origin.
Francien (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sjɛ̃]), also anglicized as Francian [1] [2] [3] (/ˈfrænsiən/), is a 19th-century term in linguistics that was applied to the French dialect that was spoken in the Île-de-France region (with Paris at its centre) before the establishment of the French language as a standard language.
16 languages. العربية ... Military history of Île-de-France (2 C, 21 P) Monuments historiques of Île-de-France (8 C) P. History of Paris (12 C, 91 P) R.