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With 40%+ Germanic vocabulary (per Braudel), is French rather a Germanic creole?
by theodric 2y ago
With 40%+ Germanic vocabulary (per Braudel), is French rather a Germanic creole?
- bonzini 2y agoIs that the vocabulary of Germanic origin and imported from Germanic, or is it just the part of PIE that has not diverged between Latin and Germanic languages?
- biorach 2y agoMostly the former. Much of what is now France was dominated by speakers of Germanic languages after the fall of the Roman empire. They were eventually assimilated but left a linguistic legacy.