In medieval times, French had evolved into two groups, a northern branch known as the "Langue d'oïl," and a southerly group known as the "Langue d'Oc." However, after the political influence of the southerly group was crushed by the [[Albigensian Crusade]], the northerly variety became dominant, and is the ancestor of modern "standard" French (though the southern variety still exists as the [[Occitan language]]). French is also spoken in many former French colonies in [[West Africa]] and the [[Carribbean]], the Canadian province of [[Québec]], by some people in [[Vietnam]], in [[Mauritius]], in many Pacific Ocean Islands and in other places. In [[Tunisia]], a former French colony, French is still one of the primary languages spoken.
==Grammar==
===Pronouns===
*Je - I
*Tu - You(informal)
*Il - He
*Elle - She
*On - One (On le souhaite--one wishes it)
*Qui - Who
*Nous - We
*Vous - You(multiple OR formal)
*Ils - Group of people
*Elles - Group of ONLY females
===Object Pronouns===
French is a predominately SVO with some SOV aspects. For example...
''Il mange une pomme à Paris''
''Il y en mange une''.
''Edouard vais parler aux professeurs''
''Edouard vais leurs parler''
''Avez-vous vu Richard''
''L'avez-vous vu''
The objects are substituted with object pronouns which are placed before the verb in present tense or before the axillary verb.
*Les - Denotes plural direct objects.
*Le - A masculine direct object.
*La - A feminine direct object.
*L' - Placed before a verb that starts with a vowel.
*Lui - Refers to a single indirect object that is a person.
*Leur - Refers to a plural indirect object that is a person.
*Y - Refers to a place or an indirect object that isn't a person.
*En - refers to objects with a number.
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