The Germanic Language of the North of France

In french history, you talk about the auls and the franks. These were different tribes that the romans encountered. Franks were essentially germanic and had that proto germanic language. By the fourteenth century, so a couple of hundred years later, that dialect from the greater parisian area a different norman dialect. It's an interesting sort of human story that talks about politics, but also wars, conquering, of course,. But also the influence of neighboring languages on to local languages.