Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Language recognition chart (section)

====[[French language|French]] ([[:fr:Français|Français]])====
* Accented letters: ''â ç è é ê î ô û'', rarely ''ë ï'' ; ''ù'' only in the word ''où'', ''à'' only at the ends of a few words (including ''à''). Never ''á í ì ó ò ú''.
* Angle quotation marks: « » (though "curly-Q" quotation marks are also used); dialogue traditionally indicated by means of dashes.
* Common short words: ''la'', ''le'', ''les'', ''un'', ''une'', ''des'', ''de'', ''du'', ''à'', ''au'', ''et'', ''ou'', ''où'', ''sur'', ''il'', ''elle'', ''ils'', ''se'', ''je'', ''vous'', ''que'', ''qui'', ''y'', ''en'', ''si'', ''ne'', ''est'', ''sont'', ''a'', ''ont''.
* Many apostrophised contractions for common pronouns and particles, i.e. words ''l{{'}}'' or ''d{{'}}'', less often ''c{{'}}'', ''j{{'}}'', ''m{{'}}'', ''n{{'}}'', ''s{{'}}'', ''t{{'}}'', or rarely ''z{{'}}'' — only before a word starting by a vowel or, in some cases, an ''h''.
* Common digraphs and trigraphs:
** Vowels digraphs: ''au'', ''ai'', ''ei'', ''ou''. Word-final ''-ez''.
** Vowels digraphs (nasals): ''an'', ''en'', ''in'', ''on'', rarely ''un''. For all of these, the ''n'' become ''m'' before ''b'', ''p'' or ''m'' (e.g. ''embouchure'', never *''enbouchure'').
** Vowel trigraphs: ''eau'', ''ein'', ''ain'', ''oin''.
** Consonant digraphs: ''ch'', ''gu-''. Rarely ''sh''. Semi-consonant ''-ill-''.
* Letters ''w'' and ''k'', are rare and used only in loanwords, most often from Germanic languages (e.g ''whisky'').
* Ligatures ''œ'' and ''æ'' are conventional but are rarely used (a few words are well known, e.g. ''œil'', ''œuf(s)'', ''bœuf(s)'', most other are scientific/technical and borrowed from Latin).
* Words ending in ''-aux'', ''-eux'', or ''-oux''.