Le French Podcast 🎙️ : 2. L'histoire de la langue française
The history of the French language is a 2,000-year evolution from to a global language spoken by hundreds of millions. This transformation is often divided into two branches: external history (the social and political events affecting the language) and internal history (the actual grammatical and phonetic changes). 1. The Ancient Roots (Antiquity) Histoire de la langue française et grammaire hi...
: Following Julius Caesar's invasion (1st century BCE), Vulgar Latin —the everyday speech of soldiers and traders—supplanted Gaulish, forming 80% of modern French vocabulary. 2. The Birth of Proto-French (Middle Ages) Le French Podcast 🎙️ : 2
: Before Roman rule, Celtic tribes spoke Gaulish. While mostly lost, it left traces like the word Paris and the vigesimal counting system (e.g., quatre-vingts for 80). The Birth of Proto-French (Middle Ages) : Before