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<!-- Motto, languages, religion, currency -->| official_languages = All the monarchs of the Merovingian and Carolingian Periods cultivated [[Latin]] for both official and unofficial use. They were aiming at [[Classical Latin]] but achieved instead various brands of what is now called [[Medieval Latin]].<ref>{{cite
| common_languages = [[West Germanic languages]] including [[Frankish language|Frankish dialects]] and others<br/>[[Gallo-Romance languages]]<br/>[[Slavic languages]]
| religion = [[Chalcedonian Christianity]]{{refn|Originally [[Frankish paganism]]; most of the Frankish elite shifted to Chalcedonian Christianity by 751 AD<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lorenz |first=Sönke |title={{lang|de|Missionierung, Krisen und Reformen: Die Christianisierung von der Spätantike bis in Karolingische Zeit}} |date=2001 |section={{lang|de|Die Alemannen}} |publisher=Theiss |isbn=3-8062-1535-9 |location=Stuttgart |pages=441–446}}</ref> (the [[Gallo-Roman]] people were Christians). However, Christianity had largely supplanted paganism at the beginning of the 9th century.}}
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