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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.
Martine Barrat (date of birth unknown), based in New York, has photographed the black inhabitants of Harlem since the early 1980s; Claude Batho (1935–1981), remembered for the detailed images of her home and for her series on Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
Nina Catach (born 1923 in Cairo, Egypt – died 1997 in Paris, France) was a French linguist and linguistic historian who specialized in the history of French orthography. [1] She worked at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and published many notable books.
The doublet of français and François in modern French orthography demonstrates the mix of dialectal features. [citation needed] At some point during the Old French period, vowels with a following nasal consonant began to be nasalized. While the process of losing the final nasal consonant took place after the Old French period, the nasal ...
French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French . Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels , and three processes affecting word-final sounds:
Flore (born 1963), French-Spanish photographer and daughter of the painter Olga Gimeno; Hércules Florence (1804–1879) Fernand Fonssagrives (1910–2003) Vincent Fournier (born 1970), Burkina Faso-born Paris-based photographer; Auguste François (1857–1935) Charles Fréger (born 1975), portrait photographer; Jean-Baptiste Frénet (1814–1889)
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century French painters. It includes French painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
Spelling and punctuation before the 16th century was highly erratic, but the introduction of printing in 1470 provoked the need for uniformity.. Several Renaissance humanists (working with publishers) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs (1550).