Re: Conlang collaboration

En réponse à Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

>
> Which then raises the question, which elements of French are Frankish
> influenced?
>
Nearly none. The Frankish influence can only be seen in the lexicon, not in the
morphology or syntax. It reintroduced two phonemes that Gallo-Roman had
lost: /h/ and /w/. But /h/ was lost again and /w/ was mostly borrowed as [gw]
(it's still done in Spanish for instance). Hence the English "war" and the
French "guerre" have the same Germanic origin (also important thing: the
Germanic borrowings in French concern mostly military vocabulary). Another
influence (but that's more due to the effect of the invasion rather than a
linguistic cause) is that it accelerated the differentiation of the different
Gallo-Roman dialects into unintelligible languages.

Christophe.

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