Why did French become a Romance language?

Originally Answered: Why is the French language called the most romantic language? It has more sounds than English language; it is also harder to learn than English. And it sounds more romantic than English, because of many nasal sounds and different vowels. English is one of the driest languages in the world.

Is French a Germanic or Romance language?

As many of you know, French is a member of the Romance languages, daughter language of Latin, just like Italian, Romanian, Portuguese or Catalan.

Why is French so different to other Romance languages?

The pronunciation of French is different from most Romance languages because it has many vowels, it is experiencing the weakening of consonants, has irregular tonic accent, and a unique stress pattern. All these cause French to become significantly different compared to other Romance languages.

Is French a Romance language?

What are the Romance languages? The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Does French sound Germanic?

French is not a Germanic language, but rather, a Latin or a Romance language that has been influenced by both Celtic languages like Gaelic, Germanic languages like Frankish and even Arabic, other Romance languages such as Spanish and Italian or more recently, English.

Is English genetically Germanic or romance?

This (and the fact that this language can be reconstructed back to the common Proto-Germanic language that all Germanic languages go back to) is really the best direct indicator that English is genetically Germanic, rather than Romance.

Is the basic structure of English Germanic or romantic?

The majority of English vocabulary is derived from Romance languages. Given these facts, I ask for a simple and convincing demonstration (using an example) that the “basic structure” of English is of Germanic, rather than Romantic origin.

Is English A Romance language?

There is no evidence to support classifying English as a Romance language. Perhaps a case can be made that English shares some morphology and some phonology with Romance due to a large influx of loan words, including sets of morphologically related borrowed forms.

What is the ancestor of the French language?

For instance, it is relatively safe to say that the ancestor of Modern french at time 50BC is Latin, because even if there has been much vocabulary borrowing in French since 2064 years, it is marginal and most of the vocabulary and almost all of the grammars can be traced back from Latin. But English has a very special history.