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French is known as a Romance language. Contrary to the common inflection, this simply means that French derives much of its structure from Latin (Romance meaning in a Roman fashion).

Latin contributes the most to the French language. Another major influence was the habitation of the Franks (from which France gets its name)--the Franks were Germanic, so this resulted in changes in the language (especially in northern France). Other local derivations have also come about through the natural evolution of language and the spread of French to other parts of the world.

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