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.

All labels observed (5)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
standard variety of the French language
basedOn Parisian French
linked to: Metropolitan French

Île-de-France dialect
codifiedIn Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
Le Petit Larousse
Le Petit Robert
countryOfPrimaryUse France
developedFrom Vulgar Latin
hasAlternativeName French of France
linked to: French

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 languages
Romance languages
officialStatusIn European Union
France
regionOfUse mainland France
metropolitan France
linked to: 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 Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
du Plessis capitalizationRule "du" often lowercase, "Plessis" capitalized in French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Western Romance hasStandardLanguage Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Poitevin-Saintongeais influencedBy Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Champenois language hasLexicalSimilarityWith Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Burgundian (Oïl) language influencedBy Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Kouri-Vini isDistinctFrom Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi influencedBy Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Valaisan Arpitan contrastWith Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Picard isDistinctFrom Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Oïl languages ancestorOf Modern French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Oïl languages ancestorOf Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Early Modern French developedInto Modern French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Swiss French standardBasedOn Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Metropolitan French basedOn Parisian French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Baie Sainte-Marie French differsFrom Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Quebec French standardBasedOn Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
Quebec French standardBasedOn Metropolitan French