and Solandro Group (spoken in Western Trentino, in Non Valley, Val di Sole, Val di Peio, Val di Rabbi, and part of Val Rendena) Romansh (Rumantsch / Rumàntsch / Romauntsch / Romontsch) Tuatschin Sursilvan Sutsilvan Surmiran Putèr Vallader Jauer Oïl (Northern Gallo-Romance) (Langues d'Oïl) (dialect continuum) (Gallo-Roman people of today's Northern France, who called their own language simply as "Latin" or "Roman"/"Romans" or even "Langue d'Oïl", later adopted the adjective "French" – "François"/"Français" for the language based on the name of most of their ruling elite – the Franks, a Germanic people that conquered most of the ancient Roman province called Gallia and founded the Frankish Empire) Southeast Oïl (transitional between Gallo-Italic and North Gallo-Romance (Oïl) and also South Gallo-Romance (Oc), although closer to the North Gallo-Romance (Oïl) languages) (archaic North Gallo-Romance language, with some features transitional to South Gallo-Romance language – Occitan) (dialect continuum) Arpitan (Arpetan / Francoprovençâl / Patouès) (Arpetan name is derived from the name of the Alps in the language – Arpes) Piedmont Valleys Arpitan Valdôtain (Arpitan of Aosta Valley) Savoyard Vaudois Dauphinois Lyonnais Jurassien (Southern Franc-Comtois) Faetar-Cellese (Arpitan of Apulia) (Faetar-Cigliàje) (an Arpitan enclave in the south of the Italian Peninsula Old French (Franceis / François / Romanz) (extinct) (Gallo-Roman people of today's Northern France, who called their own language simply as "Latin" or "Roman"/"Romance" or even "Langue d'Oïl", later adopted the adjective "French" – "François"/"Français" for the language based on the name of most of their ruling elite – the Franks, a Germanic people that conquered most of the ancient Roman province called Gallia and founded the Frankish Empire) Middle French (François/Franceis) Burgundian (Oïl Burgundian / Burgundian Gallo-Romance) Burgundian-Morvandeau (Bregognon) Burgundian proper Morvandeau Brionnais-Charolais Frainc-Comtois/Jurassien (Frainc-Comtou/Jurassien) Central Oïl North Central Oïl Francien / Francilien (Île de France Langue d'Oïl) French (Français / Langue Française) (in the sense of group of dialects forming a dialect continuum) European French French of France / France French Île de France French Parisian (basis of Modern Standard French but not identical) Standard French (Common Supradialectal French) Meridional French / Francitan (Occitan substrate and strongly influenced by it) Belgian French Swiss French Aostan French Jersey Legal French American French / French of North America Canadian French Acadian French (Français Acadien) Chiac Louisiana French (Cajun French) (Français Louisianais) (divergent enough to be considered a separate although closely related language to the other American French varieties) (Cadien > Cajun; palatalization of di