Where did French come from?

Which language history should I make a video about next? 🤔:yt:🌏

Wait! You forgot that there was one village of "irréductible Gaulois" that refused to be invaded by the Romans. That is where Asterix and Obelix are from.

As a french teacher ; im very impressed with the amount of research and work put into this. I learned a lot myself, thank you

I was wondering how the people managed to change the word "aqua" to "eau" and pronounce it as /o/. It's funny to think about it.

I live in the south west of France where the old folks speak a patois derived from Occitan. I had a friend from the valley of Prali (not too far from Turin, in his valley they all speak a Patois, Piemontese, French and Italian). He came to my place, over 1000km away, and could converse with my neighbor's mother each in their own patois. I also worked in St Moritz (Switzerland) where they speak Romanch. Some friends from Barcelona came to visit, (Catalan speakers) they could read the newspaper written in Romanch. They could barely understand it when spoken, they said it sounded like Catalan spoken with a thick german accent. They all derive from the Langue d'Oc: Patois, Occitan, Catalan, Balearic, Sarde, Aranese, Provencal, Romanch and more.

Had Occitan triumphed over Parisian, French would've sounded much more similar to other romance languages nowadays.

“Where did the french come from”? Africa: we wonder that too

Why does English have the American Flag and not the British one?

Your production value is phenomenal

Could've sworn I was watching a video with upwards of 100k views because of the quality. Keep it up man

Gaulish had more likeness with Welsh, Cornish and Breton than the Gaelics.

Such a good video, clear and concise. I wasn't sure how much information could be conveyed in 10 minutes, but boy did you deliver! Thanks.

I’m from Switzerland and I my grandmother speaks patois. It was only spoken between the people from villages or in countrysides (people from the cities all spoke French). Patois was banned after the French Revolution in an attempt to “unify” everyone by having everyone speak Parisian, the “noble” language spoke by the King. My grandma speaks French because she learned it in school, but otherwise she mostly spoke patois. I have spoken with many elderly patois-speakers and they have all told me their stories on how the teachers would punish a student if he spoke patois, how it was hard for them not to speak it in school since most of them didn’t know a single word in French as they had all grown up learning only patois. Soon, many parents would limit the patois at home and try to speak French as much as possible. Anyways, it’s really sad seeing such an old and beautiful language from my country slowly disappear... it’s what happens to many dialects; it isn’t needed in the world so people don’t bother teaching it to their children... I hope you thought this was interesting!

Franch: a Latin-offspring, evolved among Celtic Gauls, adopted by Germanic Franks, named after the latter, except for the linguistic specialties, characteristics, manners, because those are called Gallicisms, yet French itself is full of Germanisms (eg. the obligatory personal pronoun).

Great video. There aren't enough videos like this on the transition from late Latin into Early Romance with a good amount of detail. Keep it up!

This popped up in my recommended feed and I really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to check out more of your content.

RIP to other Gallo-Romances languages & Occitan, not being learned enough as French is.

I'm italian from North. My ancestors were venetic and Cisalpine Gauls. Greetings my Gallic Transalpine Brothers. ☺️

You deserve way more views than you have! This video is perfect, it's informative and fun to watch, easy to keep up and the animations is great. Might be because I love languages and history but 9k views you deserve a million! Here's my like, my sub and comment altogether lol

This was informative and entertaining. Paced beautifully, with animation that was fun. Thank you