{
  "id": "french.language",
  "term": "french",
  "sense": "language",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "english",
  "domain": "language.communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "language used by people of a region",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "language.communication",
      "people.social",
      "region.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "people of a region use words and form a language",
    "novel_properties": [
      "vocabulary",
      "grammar"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Quebec's National Assembly passed Bill 96, reinforcing French as the sole official language of government and education.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The BBC launched a French-language radio service for Africa in 1940, broadcasting from London to support Free French forces.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1801, the Rosetta Stone was discovered, containing the same text in Greek, Demotic, and French-readable Egyptian hieroglyphs.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "language.communication",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "French is a language"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "french"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-french.language"
}