Old Picard

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Old Picard is a historical Romance language variety spoken in the Picardy region of northern France, closely related to Old Norman and other early Oïl languages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Oïl language
Romance language
historical language variety
classificationDetail often treated as a northern dialect of Old French
closelyRelatedTo Old French NERFINISHED
Old Norman NERFINISHED
country France
developedFrom Gallo-Romance NERFINISHED
Vulgar Latin NERFINISHED
geographicDistributionDetail areas around Amiens and other Picard towns
hasDescendant Modern Picard NERFINISHED
Picard language NERFINISHED
historicalStatus no longer spoken as a native language
influenced regional written traditions in Picardy
ISOStatus not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code (usually grouped under Old French)
languageFamily Gallo-Romance languages NERFINISHED
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
linguisticFeature lexical items distinct from Central Old French
palatalization patterns similar to Old Norman
phonological traits characteristic of northern Oïl varieties
partOf Oïl languages NERFINISHED
region Picardy NERFINISHED
relatedDialectGroup Norman NERFINISHED
Picard
Walloon NERFINISHED
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Picardy NERFINISHED
northern France
subclassOf Gallo-Romance language
Old French dialect
timePeriod Middle Ages
medieval period
typologicalFeature fusional morphology
gendered nouns
verb conjugation system inherited from Latin
usedIn administrative records
literary texts
medieval legal documents
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Old Norman closelyRelatedTo Old Picard