
The Origins of the French Language by Olivier Robichaud
The French History Podcast
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How Did We Get From a Celtic Gaul to a Romanized Latin Gaul?
How did we get from latin to french? To answer this question, we need both traditional linguistics and socio linguistics. The first thing you need to note is that all languages change overtime. It's possible that celtic was simply seen as having no future. And it disappeared from most places during the five hundreds. So that's how we got from a celtic gaul to a romanized latin gaul. But withh two things in mind, let's explore some of the fundamental differences between latin and french and see how those differences arose.
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