froTechnical 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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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 | |
| Supported in Localizely |
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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