Language code: `fro`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fro

The table below provides technical details for the Old French (842-ca. 1400) language, designated by the fro code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code	`fro`
Name	Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Language varieties	FrancienNormanPicardChampenoisBurgundianWalloonAnglo-Norman
Related languages	Modern FrenchNormanPicardFranco-ProvençalOccitan
Key facts	Earliest surviving major work is the epic La Chanson de Roland (c. 1100)Old French introduced thousands of words into Middle English after 1066It used distinct subject and object pronoun forms and marked verbal person more richly than Modern FrenchSpellings were highly variable because no official orthographic standard existedThe term “langue d’oïl” comes from the Old French word for “yes,” contrasting with Occitan’s “oc.”
Sample phrase	Salutz, coment estes vos ?
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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The Old French (842-ca. 1400) language, identified by the code fro, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Historical' by its type.

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