Francien language

Francien is a 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 ago the instituting of the French language as a standard language.

According to one concepts of the coding of French, Francien was chosen out of all the competing languages as an official language Norman as well as Picard being the leading competitors in the medieval period. The impression 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 as well as record to replace Latin.

The existence together with definition of Francien were add forward in the 19th century, partly to assistance 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 impeach of Francien is a controversial topic in discussions of language policy in France.