where the french language come from?
Indo-European languages Romance languages
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 As an international language of learning and literature , Latin itself continued as an active medium of expression for diplomacy and for intellectual developments identified with Renaissance humanism up to the 17th century , and for law and the Roman Catholic Church to the present . 

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 A second period in Heliade 's linguistic researches , inaugurated when he adopted Étienne Condillac 's theory that a language could be developed from conventions , eventually brought about the rejection of his own earlier views . By the early 1840s , he postulated that Romanian and Italian were not distinct languages , but rather dialects of Latin , which prompted him to declare the necessity of replacing Romanian words with " superior " Italian ones . One of his stanzas , using his version of the Romanian Latin alphabet , read : 

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 French influence is evident in Hannah Woolley 's The Cooks Guide , 1664 . Her recipes are designed to enable her non @-@ aristocratic readers to imitate the fashionable French style of cooking with elaborate sauces . She combined the use of " Claret wine " and anchovies with more traditional cooking ingredients such as sugar , dried fruit , and vinegar . 

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 French cuisine consists of the cooking traditions and practices from France . 

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 After the decentralization of political power in late antiquity , Latin developed locally into branches that became the Romance languages , such as Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , and a large number of minor languages and dialects . Today , more than 900 million people are native speakers worldwide . 
