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The Origins of the French Language by Olivier Robichaud

The French History Podcast

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The Influence of Frankish in French

Linguists have calculated that there are a bit more than 500 words of frankish origin in modern french. Of those 30 thousand corps words in english, fully one third come from french post norman conquest. French is a latin language with notable frankish influence, but certainly not a high degree of hybridization. And the celtic heritage is practically no for me.

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