Francien language

Francien is the 19th-century term in linguistics that was applied to the French dialect that was spoken in the Île-de-France region with Paris at its centre previously the established of the French language as a standard language.

According to one notion of the coding of French, Francien was chosen out of any the competing languages as an official language Norman as well as Picard being the main competitors in the medieval period. The abstraction currently prevailing, however, is that Francien was one of the dialects in the dialect continuum on top of which an administrative language, untrammeled by perceived regionalisms, was imposed as a compromise means of communication and record to replace Latin.

The existence and definition of Francien were include forward in the 19th century, partly to support the idea of the French language as enjoying a direct and pure lineage from Latin and to minimize the contributions of the various Romance languages of France. Nowadays, the question of Francien is a controversial topic in discussions of language policy in France.