Metropolitan French

E406940

Metropolitan French is the standard variety of the French language as used in mainland France, serving as the primary reference for French grammar, vocabulary, and spelling.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
standard variety of the French language
basedOn Metropolitan French self-linksurface differs
surface form: Parisian French

Île-de-France dialect
codifiedIn Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
Larousse Encyclopedia
surface form: Le Petit Larousse

Le Petit Robert
countryOfPrimaryUse France
developedFrom Vulgar Latin
hasAlternativeName French
surface form: French of France

standard French
hasHistoricalOrigin Middle French
Old French
hasMorphologicalFeature gendered nouns
verb conjugation by person and tense
hasPhonologicalFeature liaison
nasal vowels
uvular rhotic /ʁ/
hasRegister colloquial register of French
formal register of French
informal register of French
hasRegulatoryBody Académie française
hasSpellingStandard orthographe française
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order
use of clitic object pronouns before the verb
isStandardContrastWith African French
Belgian French
Quebec French
Swiss French
languageFamily Gallo-Romance languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
officialStatusIn European Union
France
regionOfUse mainland France
Metropolitan France
surface form: metropolitan France
standardFor French grammar
French spelling
French vocabulary
subclassOf French language
usedAsReferenceIn French dictionaries
French grammars
French language education in France
French orthographic norms
usedIn French education system
French national media
French public administration
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Belgian French sharesStandardOrthographyWith Metropolitan French
Belgian French closelyRelatedTo Metropolitan French
Vivaro-Alpine neighboringLanguage Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
du Plessis capitalizationRule Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: "du" often lowercase, "Plessis" capitalized in French
Western Romance hasStandardLanguage Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Poitevin-Saintongeais influencedBy Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Champenois language hasLexicalSimilarityWith Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Burgundian (Oïl) language influencedBy Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Kouri-Vini isDistinctFrom Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi influencedBy Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Valaisan Arpitan contrastWith Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Picard isDistinctFrom Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Oïl languages ancestorOf Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Modern French
Oïl languages ancestorOf Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Early Modern French developedInto Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Modern French
Swiss French standardBasedOn Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Metropolitan French basedOn Metropolitan French self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Parisian French
Baie Sainte-Marie French differsFrom Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Quebec French standardBasedOn Metropolitan French
this entity surface form: Standard French
Quebec French standardBasedOn Metropolitan French