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'''French''' (French: ''français'') is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]] of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]]. It developed from the spoken Latin used in Roman Gaul and became the main national language of [[France]]. It is also used as an official language in several other states.
'''French''' (French: ''français'') is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]] of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]]. It developed from the spoken Latin used in Roman Gaul and became the main national language of [[France]]. It is also used as an official language in several other states.


French is written with the Latin alphabet. It uses several diacritics, including the acute accent, grave accent, circumflex, diaeresis, and cedilla. Its ISO 639-1 code is ''fr''. Its ISO 639-2 codes are ''fra'' and ''fre'', with ''fra'' used as the terminological code and ''fre'' as the bibliographic code.
French is written with the Latin alphabet. It uses several diacritics, including the acute accent, grave accent, circumflex, diaeresis, and cedilla. Its [[ICR 300]] short code is ''FR''. Its canonical ICR code is ''FRA'', with ''FRE'' retained as a compatibility alias.


== History ==
== History ==
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* [[Switzerland]]
* [[Switzerland]]
* Language
* Language
* [[List of ISO 639-2 codes]]
* [[List of ICR language codes]]
* [[Romance languages]]
* [[Romance languages]]
* Latin language
* Latin language