Evolution of Words from Latin to French

A few words of basic vocabulary and how they developed from Classical Latin to French. Thank you Iron Inquisitor for the idea, on how hoc ille became oui!

[@folox275]

the transition is like from "Hold the door" to "HODOR"

[@keptins]

Or even "odeur"

[@Andrew-gn9qp]

I describe French as like Latin but the words were cut in half.

[@emiriebois2428]

And soften .

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

Maybe that's why I can't remember a damn word The words are too short

[@senesterium]

French is Latin minus Italian.

[@ArthurPPaiva]

Same as portuguese, principaly brazilian portuguese that have a lot of french influence.

[@kekeke8988]

@@senesterium French is nothing remotely like Latin. The only reason it even resembles a romance language is because of the non-phonetic orthography.

[@Tony-zh1kz]

Its impressive to see how gradual and sometimes quick Vulgar Latin evolved into their current forms, i am interested in how the Romances languages sounded before they fully evolved from their Vulgar Latin forms (As in the Early Middle Ages). Thanks to you and also Iron Inquisitor for this video ;)

[@ABAlphaBeta]

By Late Antiquity they were already diverging severely though, it's a very traditionalist view that would hold them as factually Latin until the 700-800s on the basis of first discovered texts or that it was (non-factually) considered the same language as Latin until essentially for some languages the 1300s.

[@electrictroy2010]

@ABAlphaBeta THE Pope of Rome wrote in Late 500s AD about receiving bishops from France, and barely understanding them. They were all speaking “Latin” but the dialects had diverged so much already (just ~100 years after the Roman Empire ended) .

[@nigel9907]

I don't know why i find this so interesting and relaxing at the same time!

[@DanielClear2]

Latin: Let's read what we write and vice versa French: No, I don't think I will

[@syntheretique385]

Right. As opposed to English. let's see. Tough, though, through, plough, borough, nought. Physician heal thyself.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Besides Latin was pronounced almost nothing like it's spelt. Puer was /power/, and let's not get into things like /y/ or nasalisation and elision and vowel qualities

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

@@syntheretique385Spoken French is far further removed from the written language than English. Your example is however a very good one of the stupidity of English orthography. I have always been a supporter of English spelling reform - Tuff, thogh, throogh, plough, burrugh, naught. We dont want to be too radical as long as we have rules & in this case the rule is that "gh" is silent.

[@user-xr3rb6pn9m]

It happens to most languages. Spelling "crystallises" during a certain historic period and then never gets updated in spite of phonemic changes.

[@redlamper]

@@anthonyehrenzweig1635 gh did have a pronunciation in Old English which was /x/. But gh in words like "ghost" is just an influence from different orthography.

[@liamkolomoisky4832]

It becomes harder to pronounce every time

[@SgtZaqq]

Harder if you're not French. The original Latin words are longer and require more effort to be pronounced.

[@CyrilleParis]

I'm French and it is the opposite! ;-)

[@MajaxPlop]

easier to me I'm French lol

[@ReidGarwin]

I can't deny I love the French language, but do I wish it still sounded as it did when it was Old French

[@iberius9937]

My sentiments, exactly.

[@rowanwild8445]

He used the very modern parisian accent (+80ties.. ) Before this period throughout the 20th century french sounded much more pleasant. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGbqYOmbrd-rqs Many well educated persons still speak the old fashion way though

[@inquisitorvarusnavary7126]

In Quebec, we still ''in majority'' speak a mix between Middle French and early Modern French and Modern French, Mostly in pronunciation.

[@lukethomeret-duran5273]

@@inquisitorvarusnavary7126 no Quebecois french sounds nothing like that. U sound like you are trying to speak french with an American accent. It doesn't sound good at all. But my grandfather speaks in old french accent with rolling R's and everything and is a very nice accent

[@MATRIX6162]

Quite interesting that Late Modern French sounds remarkably similar to how we speak French here in Louisiana Très Intéressant que “Late Modern French” sonne très similaire à la façon qu’on parle français en Louisiane

[@mariasanchezm.364]

French is Esau NOT arabia !.

[@mariasanchezm.364]

Esau is a white man

[@paco2942]

High gain culture it's because Louisiana was colonized at that time

[@wazyy4959]

C'est parce que pendant très longtemps vous parliez français qu'entre vous, alors la langue n'a pas pu beaucoup évoluer

[@electrictroy2010]

@paco2942 Louisiana was actually colonized before Late Modern French language (before 1750) .

[@Viktorvelat95]

I like how the Gallo-Romance period sounds strikingly similar to modern Catalonian language, the same vibe....

[@maestro9765]

Catalan is a Gallo-Romance language

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

MrZapparin it is - Catalan comes from Occitan

[@marcello7781]

Great pronunciation! Too many people still make mistakes with the "C" and "V" in Latin.

[@alw6912]

Well it’s a not a mistake. It’s just different pronunciation. As if the entire Catholic Church is making mistake on pronouncing ae, gn, ti, ci/ce aside from your c and v

[@elliottprats1910]

Similar to the mistakes made with the “b” and “v” in Spanish.

[@sephikong8323]

I am more impressed by the pronunciation of old and early modern French. The C, V, J and Y of Latin are overall pretty well known by most, but the "oi" of French until (roughly) the revolution for example is not known by that many people so it amazes me everytime someone says it correctly (it is not the only one ofc but this is the most recognisable of the examples of excellent pronunciation for me)

[@doppiovinegar6343]

Al W actually the church speaks Ecclesiastical Latin which is a dialect of Vulgar Latin and not the same as Classical Latin

[@gayusschwulius8490]

@@alw6912 It's a mistake when talking about classical latin. The catholic church speaks medieval Latin which is a different dialect, but Cicero, Caesar etc. didn't talk like that.

[@joaoioshio]

Make from latin to portuguese please

[@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386]

Pois é!

[@PedroHenrique-ys5rp]

Sim!

[@srmlto6929]

Também quero!

[@Williamgames-ck3nn]

UP!

[@gabrmarquez1786]

Sim

[@the_miracle_aligner]

So basically, Latin is the kid who let so many other kids copy his homework but they seemed to have warped and twisted it to their liking XD

[@ninjacell2999]

You have some good music man

[@lowenzahn3976]

Latin itself is a copy of a copy of a copy ...

[@Bastanu-qj2ll]

but the teacher still noticed :(

[@forgetful9845]

@@ninjacell2999 he does

[@ronocreek]

Well, this may apply to many ancient languages

[@TheMartian11]

I like how the latin was in such sharp pronunciation and it just kept declining till modern french, when it just turned into random murmuring noises

[@electrictroy2010]

When the Roman Empire fell, formal education of the masses stopped. Language devolved from sharp consonants drilled by teachers (and reinforced by spelling) to uneducated noises of illiterate masses .

[@pufuletz8576]

Make latin to romanian , that will be a wild one i bet

[@pattedechat2457]

If they are only comparing pronunciation, it's not gonna be that wild, actually.

[@UnrealPerson]

Romanian tends to be quite conservative with its latinate words, I find.

[@mihanich]

Good luck demonstrating how "hoc" or "sic" evolved into "da"

[@optimusprinceps9875]

Romanian is one of the, if not the most conservative, Romance Language, so there shouldn’t be a big difference except in a small amount of vocabulary words which were brought from other influences.

[@therat1117]

@@mihanich They didn't. 'Da' is a Slavic borrowing, which should be fairly obvious.

[@percivalyracanth1528]

French is only the Danish of the Romantic tongues but without as much choking

[@alistairt7544]

Yes, more throat clearing than choking

[@abtinh867]

You should do one of these for all the romance languages. I'm very interested to know where they lost mutual legibility and understanding.

[@pattedechat2457]

They haven't lost their mutual intelligibility...

[@CyrilleParis]

@@pattedechat2457 Yes they have. No French person can inderstand Italian without learning it. And vice-versa. And the same with Spanish or Romanian or Portuguese. Some words sound familiar, that's all.

[@CyrilleParis]

@Trash Tier Waifu My bad.I was too French centered. Do you understand Italian or romanian as easily?

[@awlkdural5396]

@Trash Tier Waifu ok how much of this video can you understand? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYqwZp6nbsZ7obM

[@Blublod]

Dude, your Latin is impeccable! This progression is just the coolest thing and I have to say this channel is just completely underrated. I'd like to see this kind of evolution in other languages so I'll look for more videos like this. Keep up the great work; you rock!

[@Glassandcandy]

I have to agree- the attention payed to phonemic vowel length is great. That’s something many Latinist skip out on but is extremely important to accurate pronunciation

[@Stoneworks]

yo next time can you leave all the words up, perhaps make it a table? so we can compare each iteration?

[@Stoneworks]

@Ere K whoa..... heey haha

[@Stoneworks]

@Ere K ey thanks b I really appreciate it

[@mrifix8475]

As a french i think that i would be able to understand late old french and a little bit of old french. and after late old french i would be to speak it and completly understand it

[@mattreynolds3178]

you should have a side by side translation of the modern french and classical latin

[@marcmarc8524]

Do it!

[@larosenoire1411]

Les abonnés français réveillez-vous !!!!

[@LazierSophie]

Votre message ne peut être compris à cause de l'orthographe : réveillez-vous !

[@alistairt7544]

*réveillez-vous

[@larosenoire1411]

@@alistairt7544 ah oui pardon je corrige de suite

[@ricois3]

En tant que belgo-québécois, les ressemblances avec l'accent québécois et avec le Wallon sont fascinantes

[@Klowner777]

Beautiful, thank you. Would love to see each at the end each word individually evolve !

[@GrandeSalvatore96]

Ugh I live for stuff like this, thank you!!

[@aviator2117]

It’s crazy how much it changed from Gallo romance to thee Middle French period and then only really changed in pronunciation and some vocab from there. If you look at the oaths of Strasbourg fro, 842 and Chanson de Roland, from around the 12th century, it’s like a completely different language, like looking at Anglo Saxon vs Middle French. The funny thing is, looking at French and English, is that French, being a Romance language, had early influence from Germanic languages, and English, being a Germanic language, had early influence from Romance languages. I love learning about old languages and how they change, and I love your channel because it lets me hear at least an estimate of how they sounded. So thank you for bringing them to life. :)

[@aviator2117]

Anglo Saxon vs Middle English*

[@electrictroy2010]

@aviator2117 ENGLAND was taken-over by French rulers. The mixture of Old English (germanic) and Old French (romance) created a huge mess of inconsistent grammar & odd spellings. My professor said our modern tongue is like 2 languages merged together. France never experienced that, so French remained French (just evolved).

[@maxis2k]

Early French: It's just Latin guys. Modern French: Let's make half the letters silent and change the letters we do say to something totally different.

[@beredentod]

Great video! What I would suggest is to put the words in a column one below another so that when the word changes you can instantly see what alternated

[@electrictroy2010]

EXACTLY. It’s better if the identical words are lined-up, so we can see how they evolved. That is how another KZbinr organizes his slides. Makes it easy to follow .

[@hegoney5841]

Ah en fait les Québécois ils parlent comme il y a mille ans 😉

[@emiriebois2428]

Au Québec, il y'a mille ans on parlait pas français . Vous pensez que les blancs sont autochtones des Amériques?

[@Akirabxl]

@@emiriebois2428 c'est quand même fatiguant de toujours tout ramener à la colonisation

[@emiriebois2428]

@@Akirabxl . Faut dire quel perdure toujours! Qui est la majorité aux Amériques ( culture, populations, langues etc) ????? En plus les autochtones sont encore victimes de raciste sur leur propre terre!

[@emiriebois2428]

@@Akirabxl . C'est quand même plus fatiguant de subir de la discriminations depuis 500 ans sur sa propre terre.

[@emiriebois2428]

@@thir5309 Pas du tout, c'est juste de pointer le doit que certain personne ont oublié histoire.

[@viperking6573]

Can you do the same thing but between Latin and (Nuorese) Sardinian?

[@aviator2117]

Which indefinite article would one use for chiens in old French? Un, une, uns, etc. I’m trying to make the sentence “I want a dog”. So far I have je/jo voel (article) chiens. Please help, or I can ask in your discord if you’d like.

[@MaestroSangurasu]

As a French , it is cool to see The évolution of my language if we pronounced all the letters it would have been better , now the people say that it is hard

[@electrictroy2010]

What’s so hard about pronouncing all the letters? In America we are taught to say every letter (minus a few exceptions like silent E in lake)

[@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941]

The summary of the changes at the bottom is really cool

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Gratias

[@jameswhisker5501]

Can you make evolution of Portuguese and Italian please?

[@mabelloc6084]

Très intéressant. Mais sur quoi vous basez-vous pour déduire ces changements et comment expliquez-vous les changements radicaux d'orthographe entre plusieurs périodes.

[@jameswhisker5501]

Heyyy awesome video! Please continue to do this with other languages!

[@pnkcnlng228]

I speak Lombard language and some words of old french are the same in modern Lombard language, very cool!

[@aldyleeson]

It would be interesting if you guys used a comparing evolution at the same screen. Also why you guys also didn't use the whole screen for the words? They are so small!

[@Samuelcpittman]

I honestly understood everything because there was an English translation in the beginning.

[@notfunny490]

would a video like this be possible for dalmatian?

[@Mk1x1]

Great video as always! It's interesting to hear how the languages sound like Unrelated question but, which historical art is your profile picture from? She looks familiar but I can't seem to pinpoint who

[@ABAlphaBeta]

A Minoan princess by Godward

[@Mk1x1]

@@ABAlphaBeta Do you have a link to the specific painting? I've tried looking for it (im assuming John William Godward) but I couldn't find it Edit: Found it! Thanks

[@gonzalo8192]

evolution sounds softer

[@nextrimus_9618]

На слух гораздо сложнее воспринимать

[@galmay_]

This british man managed to speak perfect Latin, perfect French and everything in between, quite impressive...

[@siarhian10]

would love to see something celtic, especially Welsh / Brythonic at some point?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Not that much of an evolution unless you go far back, but certainly possible

[@isaacshultz8128]

Beautiful pronunciation!!!

[@MaestroSangurasu]

Salut est-ce que tu peux faire un truc sur le français québécois (histoire, comparaison etc...) Je suis pas Québécois mais j'aime bien cette accent je trouve que personne en parle c'est dommage parce que c'est beaucoup différent par rapport aux Français de France

[@liquidcancer4573]

I need more of this

[@BarelloSmith]

Cool!

[@Fummy007]

I always wondered how it happened.

[@Gameworks1407]

Didn't the nasal e and the nasal œ merge into nasal e that later turned into nasal æ? Also love the video it's really great, you're prononciation is impeccable.

[@FannomacritaireSuomi]

Thank you for making this video about natural development and not _how the Latin word _*_constructio_*_ became French _*_construction_*

[@JohnnyCrack]

So modern french is basically just whispering and mumbling latin?

[@superwassou]

C'etait très intéressant. Merci!

[@elainelouve]

This was very interesting.:)

[@Kamikaze-gy2nd]

Wow! I'm impressed!

[@thesourceofknowledge1712]

brilliant pronunciation of the Lingua Latina and La Langue Française !!

[@kinganko6857]

I love these types of videos. Could you make one with Albanian?

[@dracodistortion9447]

Imagine wearing salad on your head and eating long bread *THIS POST WAS MADE BY THE CELTIC GANG*

[@tuahsakato17]

Lmao

[@user-hl9ug3zu5y]

what influenced the changes in each period?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

​@Ere k Those languages contributed only slightly - I would say that "greatly" is an exaggeration, as you mentioned yourself changes are random. They served as substrata influencing things, but it doesn't always have to be the case - an emigration of 1000 French Jews to Spain changed Spanish forever, number != influence != importance

[@user-hl9ug3zu5y]

@@ABAlphaBeta interesting... I still find it crazy that we used a rolling R for so long and one day we suddenly started using a guttural one

[@maelstrom57]

@@user-hl9ug3zu5y That didn't happen by chance. At some point the Parisian upper classes created their own accent which includes the guttural R to sound different from the peasants and lowly plebs until it ended up becoming the norm.

[@Dolfi500]

du coup, ça veut dire que le français est plus proche du latin que l'italien du latin ? ou meme l'espagnol ?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

La proximité n'a pas beaucoup de valeur scientifique. Anecdotiquement, c'est la plus divergente des langues, mais le lexique reste globalement très latin comparé à l'espagnol. Le sarde ou italien, le roumain étymologiquement, seraient "plus proches". Mais, linguistiquement, tous divergent depuis 2000 ans - tous sont équidistants du latin!

[@peteryepremian5595]

Which one of these sound most similar to the Franks in age of empires 2?

[@1234smileface]

Fascinating

[@thg2123]

Great explanation

[@jebdunkins6796]

Was the character for v a w sound in classical latin and a v sound in vulgar latin? If so why was that?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Sound change is pretty much random, or fuelled by what some call "laziness" but which is just natural development. It became v in Hindi and German too

[@jebdunkins6796]

@@ABAlphaBeta oh. I assumed that vulgar and classical were spoken at the same time. I thought that it didnt make sense that a roman would use one sound when speaking to his fellow citizens and another when barking orders at his slaves.

[@HobbesTWC]

Not an expert, but here's my two cents. V was originally pronounced as the velar approximant /w/ in Latin (reflecting PIE *w and sometimes *gʷ). The change to the labiodental /v/ is pretty common in many languges; in Irish some dialects pronounce mh and bh as /v/, others as /w/, for example. The sounds are pretty similar, which is why German speakers tend to confuse English /w/ (a sound not found in German) with /v/.

[@altf4218]

@@HobbesTWC the change seems to have gone through an intermediate stage: /w/ became /β/ first, and this was probably the sound present in Vulgar Latin. It later became /v/ in almost all Romance languages, except for Spanish which merged the sounds /b/ and /β/ as allophones of each other and Sardinian too I think.

[@HobbesTWC]

@@altf4218 yeah I think that's also similar to what happened in Greek: The sound represented by the letter beta was a bilabial stop (which is why Strabo opts for the omicron-upsilon digraph to denote Latin V, and does not use beta; in his time ου was probably already pronounced /u/, a sound very close to /w/, while β must have still been /b/) , it then became a bilabial approximant, and finally a labiodental fricative. Incidentally beta is now used in the IPA to denote the bilabial fricative.

[@megapeiron]

I prefer the old "R" (It sounds like the Portuguese "R") of French.

[@paranoidrodent]

You can still hear it in some North American French, especially among older speakers and more isolated dialects. Several of my older relatives have those strongly rolled Rs and even I have much more heavily rolled Rs than is typical in standard French. The Rs in the Prince Edward Island dialect of Acadian French and some Louisiana French sounds archaic even to me. We kind of branched off at the third to last example (1600-1750 or so? - 1760 to be precise) and evolved apart (keeping tons of linguistic features that disappeared in France). However, we have been re-conveging with standard French in the last half century due to mass media and the internet.

[@Motofanable]

pretty cool!

[@PuddintameXYZ]

Nicely done, though I wish you had kept the English on-screen for comparison

[@derkatermann2758]

What does “formāticus” mean?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Shaped, basically, since it was shaped into wheels

[@julienpento3636]

Je me demande pourquoi et à quel moment les Français ont arrêté de rouler les R.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@Ere k Fin 19e dans les cercles d'ouvriers parisiens, avant de se généraliser un peu plus et en gros tous sauf les paysans limitrophes avaient un r uvulaire avant la fin de la PGM

[@PACotnoir1]

Une correction: c'est l'accusatif qui a donné les mots en français et non pas le nominatif.

[@reda84.]

Très intéressant!

[@ff_crafter]

Nice i love this

[@followerofjulian1652]

Those of us who sing early music have to learn French pronunciation appropriate to the time of the music's composition. Glad to know I got "roy" for early modern French right!

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Yes, it is often impressive - Vincent Dumestre's Le Poème Harmonique is flawless, they also sang an entire Molière play's repertoire in accurate 17th century French, Spanish and Italian (the weakest being the Spanish, where they have a bit too much of a modern take)

[@monkeypie8701]

So if this was applied to English, the sample text "High grain culture is because Louisiana was colonised at the time" would become "Igh gʁoi(n) chaw(n) bei Leefcige wuhr clü(n) i duhr tie"

[@mrgabest]

One thing that this video sidesteps is that the Latin-speakers that initially settled in the distant parts of Europe (France, Spain, Portugal) were generally uneducated and thus already speaking a debased or gutter version of the language. The Latin spoken in Gaul didn't descend from a proper classical Roman dialect - some of the verbal trends that define French would have already existed right as Roman soldiers began to settle there.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

You're right, if only I'd included Vulgar Latin

[@Rolando_Cueva]

I would have preferred if you did it word per word instead all of them at once but ok

[@Dracopol]

Isn't French for drum "tambour"? Timbre in French means a postage stamp.

[@FrenchRabbi4Jesus]

Yeah you are right, as a french i confirm

[@samiboudemagh9927]

@@FrenchRabbi4Jesus il y a aussi le timbre de la voix.

[@mashiah1]

It would be interesting to hear how aqua became eau

[@Furienna]

Two words in Swedish have the same roots: "å" (creek) and "ö" (island).

[@FrenchRabbi4Jesus]

aqua -> agua -> awa (same as modern spanish "agua" ) -> ewe -> eau :)

[@Robert.Stole.the.Television]

Holy shit, so they used to have the r sound like English until relatively recently!

[@ABAlphaBeta]

English lost it *before* French so I'm not sure what you mean

[@Robert.Stole.the.Television]

@ABAlphaBeta I meant that they only started making r in the distinctive way they do today relatively recently. I expected them to uvularise it during the period of the Revolution for example.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@Robert.Stole.the.Television It's basically 19th century French working class people who started uvularising in certain positions, it only generalised around WW1. Even today some old people still have a natural trill

[@HobbesTWC]

​@@ABAlphaBeta Would you say that the trill is more common in Occitania and maybe Corsica?

[@jorn957]

We don't ear the even r sound x)

[@MapsCharts]

C'est génial ^^

[@aviator2117]

Is it possible that it went hoc ille>oc ille>oc ill>og il>oxil>oïl and so on?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Which point specifically? Some of those changes wouldn't be in the right order

[@aviator2117]

Oh ok then nvm

[@aviator2117]

@@ABAlphaBeta after taking a couple months to research this topic I’ve come to realize that your changes indeed make more sense 👍

[@dyefield2712]

I would love to see something like this with english.

[@antonioluna4688]

Why the latin r sound became gutural In French?

[@AuburnTigers111]

I think they got it from the Germans.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Random sound change

[@mathieuvernet5237]

Je m'était toujours demander comment le français et l’occitan c’étaient retrouver à avoir des mots si différent pour oui, et je comprenais pas comment on avait pût passer de sic à oil (prononcer comme huile en anglais ou juste oy) puis oui. Je comprend maintenant beaucoup mieux avec le point de départ hoc ille et surtout maintenant que je sais que la prononciation qu'on entend couramment pour langue d'oil est toute pourris. Je trouve que les deux contractions oc et oil sont assez logique .

[@ABAlphaBeta]

On a du conservatif (longus > long) et du taré (medietatem > moitié)

[@sauronmordor7494]

Merci

[@liquidcancer4573]

Do the same type of deal but with Germanic to German or Dutch or something

[@Leebpascal1]

I dare you to find even one french person dressed (outside jokes or costume parties) like the one on the thumbnail...

[@ABAlphaBeta]

That's why it's a stereotype. And honestly without the béret, quite a few BCBG Parisian men.

[@beefcakepantiehoes]

Please make this video but with evolution of Latin to Italian!

[@PitiNasri]

Worm /= Vermeil tho, it's Ver Or Vermeil in modern french comes from the word meaning Worm in latin?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Words shift in meaning

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Also French is my native language

[@PitiNasri]

@@ABAlphaBeta Moi aussi mon ami/e! Curieux comme situation

[@firmanbudiwicaksono1822]

why in modern French, they do not revise the writing according to the pronunciation?

[@Wojak_who_games]

Cool vid

[@juempe77]

Evolution or change?

[@matiasbrachini8741]

Barbarization.

[@nickc3657]

I looked up the liaison phenomenon in French, but I still don’t understand what you mean by “three-way pronunciation.”

[@ABAlphaBeta]

What

[@nickc3657]

ABAlphaBeta your notes on the screen on Middle French Modern French

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@nickc3657 in front of words with a vowel, a consonant and on their own. gras /gras/, gras jambon /gra/, gras albatros /graz/ On its own then merged with before a consonant: sang /sank/ and sang impur /sank/ and sang séché /saNG/ just became sang, sang séché /saNG/ and sang impur /sank/

[@nickc3657]

ABAlphaBeta oh ok thank you!

[@redfruit1993z]

I like how cat is the most recognizable word of all since ever.

[@aviator2117]

I think it’s “non”

[@mlvcsj]

@ABAlphaBeta, I wish you were my history and language teacher.

[@teilonschueller4175]

Past: different words Today: an an an, xã xã xã ..

[@cartervames3296]

So does this mean that the guttural rolled R in modern French really only came about in the last 100 years?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

As always, time, location, social class. Probably some early 1800s miners and Parisian suburbans used it. It kept becoming more popular in certain parts of words but contrasting with /r/ (la premièrə maRkə). Generalised use? Post-1900. Southerners in the 1960s still had /r/.

[@mrpardaux3401]

Make a videos about the evolution of portuguese, please!!!

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Why not Romanian? I heard it’s te closes language we have from Latin today.

[@cihesham]

That's not true Italian is

[@isaacleiton8178]

@@cihesham It ain't, Sardinian is

[@alexandruchiriac2179]

latin to romanian would be really interesting, since romanian is the 'weird guy' amoung the other romance languages! i can provide you with translations to modern romanian, it's my first language!

[@k.ztomigrad8697]

There is no info on the language, just a huge jump from vulgar-latin to modern romanian, 1500 years missing.

[@AuburnTigers111]

Romanian is the Roman who hung out with the Slavs for too long.

[@mrtrollnator123]

Apparently, Romanian used to have a LOT more slavic influence 500 years ago, it actually removed some slavic loanwords over time, Heck it even was written in the Cyrillic alphabet at one point!

[@auggy7675]

So basically it goes Roman Slightly less Roman Very much not Roman If someone can correct me on this please feel free