• the publication of the first French dictionary by the Académie française, there were attempts to reform French orthography. This has resulted in a complicated...
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  • French orthography was already (more or less) fixed and (from a phonological point of view) outdated when its lexicography developed in the late 17th century...
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  • question. History of French Phonological history of French Varieties of French French orthography Reforms of French orthography Phonologie du Français...
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  • The circumflex (ˆ) is one of the five diacritics used in French orthography. It may appear on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, for example â in pâté. The...
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  • An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written...
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    "debt"): Old French doit > French doigt "finger" (Latin digitus) Old French pie > French pied "foot" [Latin pes (stem: ped-)] French orthography is morphophonemic...
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    was largely caused by the Norman language's planned adaptation to French orthography. When Norse Vikings from modern day Scandinavia arrived in Neustria...
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  • P
    alphabet, all symbolized /p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive. In English orthography, ⟨p⟩ represents the sound /p/. A common digraph in English is ⟨ph⟩, which...
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  • F
    [ɸ] or /v/. In French orthography, ⟨f⟩ is used to represent /f/. It may also be silent at the end of words. In Spanish orthography, ⟨f⟩ is used to represent...
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  • The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence...
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  • S
    Old High German ⟨sc⟩ was replaced by ⟨sch⟩ in Early Modern High German orthography. The minuscule form ſ, called the long s, developed in the early medieval...
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  • Françaises (French for "The French Letters"), a French literary publication French orthography, the spelling and punctuation of the French language This...
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  • E
    the letter is silent, generally at the end of words like queue. In the orthography of many languages it represents either [e], [e̞], [ɛ], or some variation...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...
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  • Y (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant. In Latin, Y was named I graeca...
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  • L (category Articles containing French-language text)
    letter L is rendered as L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} . In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound...
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  • Grand dictionnaire terminologique (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    North American, European or African. The GDT uses the 1990 Reforms of French orthography with loanwords and neologisms. It also prioritises usage of each word...
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  • B
    /p/ Pinyin romanization English /b/ French /b/, /p/ See French orthography German /b/, /p/ See German orthography Portuguese /b/ Spanish /b/ Turkish /b/...
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    they are represented in French, which he feared would inhibit the learning of French.: 431  The creation of the orthography was essentially an articulation...
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  • H (category Articles containing French-language text)
    language and some Spanish dialects, prominently Chilean Spanish. French orthography classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways, one of which...
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  • U
    represents the close back rounded vowel /u/ or a similar vowel. In French orthography the letter represents the close front rounded vowel /y/; /u/ is represented...
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  • (German and French orthography) "Dzelem, Dzelem" "Dželem, Dželem" (Latin Serbian and Bosnian orthography) "Gyelem, Gyelem" (Hungarian orthography) "Jelem...
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  • I
    thus "avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts." In many languages' orthographies, ⟨i⟩ is used to represent the sound /i/ or, more rarely, /ɪ/. In the...
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  • Jèrriais (category Articles containing French-language text)
    Jèrriais (French: Jersiais [ʒɛʁzjɛ]; also known as the Jersey language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance language and the...
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  • O
    Ò̩ ò̩ Ǭ ǭ O͍ o͍ Ꝍ ꝍ : O with loop was used in some medieval Nordic orthographies Ꟁ ꟁ : Old Polish O ⱺ : Small o with low ring inside is used in the Swedish...
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    jurisdiction was called the Constabulary (connestablie; or in modern French orthography which sticks closer to the correct pronunciation: connétablie). The...
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  • T
    few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these include croquet and debut. In the orthographies of other languages...
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  • Question mark (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    MARK French orthography specifies a narrow non-breaking space before the question mark. (e.g., "Que voulez-vous boire ?"); in English orthography, no space...
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  • that is, c, g, h, j, and s circumflex, and u breve. Standard Esperanto orthography uses the Latin script. The letters have approximately the sound values...
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