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 (6)

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (37)

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 ⓘ
Gallo-Romance phonology → characteristicOf → Modern French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Franc-Comtois → shiftTowards → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Gaumais → distinctFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Metz dialect → influencedBy → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Belgian Picard → influencedBy → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Roubaix–Tourcoing dialect → distinctFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Amiénois → differentFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
New Caledonian French → basedOn → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Central Walloon → influencedBy → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Western Walloon → influencedBy → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Tahitian French → usedAlongside → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Poitevin → shiftedTowards → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Chiac French → differsFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Cotentinais → distinctFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Kréyol La Lwizyàn → isDistinctFrom → Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Touraine French dialect → influencedBy → Parisian French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French
Colonial French → distinctFrom → Modern Standard French ⓘ
linked to: Metropolitan French