2006-11-24 23:47:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No French is decended from Latin and English is not.
The "English" alphabet is actually derived from the Roman (Latin)alphabet. French also uses the Roman alphabet.
The French language is decended from a dialect of Latin, but English is not.
English is decended from a germanic language, not german but a language distantly related to german.
2006-11-25 00:00:04 · answer #1 · answered by angle_of_deat_69 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
French is an older language than English in its present form.
If anything, the English alphabet got its final shape by the the French, after they invaded in 1066, and took over the country, changing the language in the process.There used to be a letter for the "th" sound which was discarded, sometimes people use a "y" because they mistake it for one, like in "ye olde ..."
English belongs to the Germanic languages, and basically derived from a Western Germanic dialect mixed with Danish, then with French.
Both alphabets come from the Latin alphabet, which shares a common origin with the Greek one, but is NOT derived from it.
2006-11-25 03:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course the first answer is correct (Latin and Gaulish) but on the subject of the English alphabet, what ever happened to the thorn? A useful letter lost.
2006-11-25 00:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the alphabet used by both English and French is from the Latin language. The Latin language, going back even further, was developed from the Greek alphabet. Where that one came from you'll have to ask someone else.
2006-11-24 23:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by niko 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The alphabets are close, yet no longer precisely a similar. as an occasion, i understand that "I" and "E" are turn-flopped in the two languages. What you're able to evaluate is that the historical past of France and England are tied so heavily jointly and that has little doubt affected the language. there exchange right into a time in historical past whilst the language of the English courtroom exchange into French, and not English. i think of you have your interpretation backwards--we don't have extra french words through alphabet, yet we've a matching alphabet because of the fact we've maximum of French words in our language.
2016-10-04 08:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by blumenkrantz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French is derived from Latin and Gaulish (mainland Celtic) languages. It's script is Latin based.
2006-11-24 23:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
they both come from latin, but english use so many french words...
2006-11-25 17:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin and English
2006-11-24 23:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
french spanish english all come from latin
2006-11-24 23:59:00 · answer #9 · answered by lucky 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Only know you can scare the French away with a bar of soap. LOL
2006-11-24 23:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋