Francian (other)
Francian may refer to: * Francians * the Francian dialect See also * Francien Francien may refer to: * Francien language * Francien, feminine given name, Dutch version of the name Francine, borne by: ** Francien de Zeeuw Sub-lieutenant, Luitenant ter zee der 2de klasse Francien de Zeeuw (Terneuzen, 19 May 1922 – Midde ...

Francians
The Kingdom of the Franks (), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, or just Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages. Francia was among the last surviving Germanic kingdoms from the Migration Period era. Originally, the core Frankish territories inside the former Western Roman Empire were located close to the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the north, but Frankish chiefs such as Chlodio would eventually expand their influence within Roman territory as far as the Somme river in the 5th century. Childeric I, a Salian Frankish king, was one of several military leaders commanding Roman forces of various ethnic affiliations in the northern part of what is now France. His son, Clovis I, succeeded in unifying most of Gaul under his rule in the 6th century by notably conquering Soissons in 486 and Aquitaine in 507 following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, ...
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Francian Dialect
Francien (), also anglicized as Francian (), is a 19th-century term in linguistics that was applied to the French dialect that was spoken during the Middle Ages in the regions of ÃŽle-de-France (with Paris at its centre), Orléanais, as well as Touraine, Berry, and Bourbonnais before the establishment of the French language as a standard language.Lodge, R. Anthony : 2004. ''A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French''. Cambridge University Press. 290 pagesPage 63Abalain, Hervé : 2007. Le français et les langues historiques de la France. Éditions Jean-paul Gisserot, p. 154, « l’orléanais, le tourangeau €¦ le berrichon, le bourbonnais, le parler d’Île-de-France sont des variations d’une même langue devenue le français standard »Abalain 2007, p. 154. According to one theory of the development of French, Francien was chosen out of all the competing ''oïl'' languages as an official language (Norman and Picard being the main competitors in the medieval period). Th ...
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