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in period, french replaced latin , so everybody in the royal life and the intelligent,noble persons spoke french like latin in the past in europe.

why french was consider more like latin of son than italian one?

i know that italian is the son of latin , and the closesth but french replaced latin but italian one not.

2007-10-22 07:14:39 · 4 answers · asked by ............... 7 in Arts & Humanities History

avan: yeah but i say in period , i learn that ,french was the language the most spoken by noble and royal family in europe like in russia .

2007-10-22 07:52:01 · update #1

rednig_m : euh....i learn that ^_^ in a period french was spoke in the courts in many european countries. i diDnt SAY IN THE middle age , it was after middle age ...... french was spoke by the russian court ,french replaced latin as second language in europe , after english was replaced french [ untill the worl war i think] . euuh.....en england it was different ,french was spoke in the court because the royal familly was french .because there is a different between normans and viking , normans are more latins ,when the franks [germanic poeple who are very latinised by the catholic religions] mix with them.

2007-10-22 08:03:44 · update #2

rednig_m : euh....i learn that ^_^ in a period french was spoke in the courts in many european countries. i diDnt SAY IN THE middle age , it was after middle age ...... french was spoke by the russian court ,french replaced latin as second language in europe , after english was replaced french [ untill the world war i think] . euuh.....en england it was different ,french was spoke in the court because the royal familly was french .because there is a different between normans and viking , normans are more latins ,when the franks [germanic poeple who are very latinised by the catholic religions] mix with them.

2007-10-22 08:05:44 · update #3

4 answers

All the romance languages are descended from Latin. None of them replaced it, it was still the languages of scholars and the scientific community into the 19th century. French became dominant in the area of diplomacy largely because of France's political and economic prominence in the centuries prior to the Revolution.
Germany and Italy were not unified countries, The Hapsburg and Russian Empires were a polyglot collection of minority ethnic groups without a common language.
England was small and insignificant, Spain and Portugal were busy competing for overseas empires, thus leaving France in a position of undisputed influence in commerce, art, and science. Thus anyone who was anyone learned French.
This position was later lost to the British Empire, and even later to the U.S. This led to English, despite being difficult and illogical, replacing French as the most important language internationally. Something that the French still haven't forgiven them for.

2007-10-22 07:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by Mark S 3 · 2 0

Where did you get the idea from that French replaced Latin throughout Europe? In the Middle Ages Latin was the language of educated persons throughout Europe. This was because most educated people were so educated by the Church where Latin was the common language. In England, which had a Norman-French nobility following the conquest, French was the language of the Court, but it did not replace, but stood alongside Latin as the language of the aristocracy. Later, each country developed its own language - French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese being known as 'Romance' languages because they were most closely allied to Latin.

2007-10-22 07:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1 0

The clergy all spoke Latin, Italian was considered beneath them as it was too much like a popularized version of Latin and the nobles wanted a language that set them apart - as the French empire was huge at that time, it's no surprise that they chose French as their language.
Kept it for a long time too around these parts (Flanders, Belgium)! Just about 50 years ago, you were nothing if you couldn't speak french and shop owners had to welcome you in French or they could get fined. Former teacher told me that, he actively took part in the student riots that finally allowed us Flemish to speak our own language.

Jo

2007-10-22 07:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by slashgirl_1984 5 · 0 0

French, along with all the other romance languages, evolved from Latin. When you say that French replaced Latin in "royal life" I am not quite sure what you are refering to...The French lanquage evolved in France, and was spoken in France. As French nobles expanded their sphere of influence they took their language along with them. (For instance, when the Normans invaded England, they brought the French language)

2007-10-22 07:30:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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