Historical Primer of French Phonetics and Inflection (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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French belongs to the group of modern European tongues known as the Romance languages, which have developed out of Latin. The group includes Spanish and Portuguese, French and Provencal, Italian, Wallachian or Roumanian, and Rhaetic or Ladin (spoken in the Grisons in Switzerland, and in the western part of the Tyrol).

These languages developed, not out of literary Latin as we find it in the Classical writers, but out of the popular spoken language sermo rusticus' or 'vulgaris known as Vulgar Latin. The two, literary and popular Latin, were originally the same; but, whereas the literary Latin was artificially preserved, with little or no change, by the Roman writers and grammarians, the popular Latin, like every spoken language, was in constant process of change, so that the two deviated more and more with the lapse of time. It was this Vulgar Latin which was carried by the Roman conquests into the various provinces forming the Empire, and which supplanted the native tongues of the inhabitants of those provinces; it is thus the source to which we must trace back the modern Romance languages.

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