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Explain French (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/linguistics_humor

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

French phonology was heavily influenced by Germanic languages, unlike Spanish and Italian.

For better or for worse, the orthography (writing system) did not really keep up with the changes.

So instead of French being half way between Italian and Spanish, like you might expect, it's really it's own thing when it comes to pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know how big this effect really is but French changed their orthography during the renaissance to make it more Latin like