A historical introduction to French

Although many French people think they are descendants of les gaulois, it seems that only a few Celtic influences remain on the French people today. Many words come from Latin or Germanic.

In the 4th century AD, the Roman Empire ruled Gaul, and Latin became popular in Gaul. By the 5th century AD, Latin had widely replaced Celtic originally used in Gaul. In Gaul, with the increase of Roman immigrants, the common Latin used by Gauls merged into popular Latin, and the written Latin used as a scholar of high society began to decline. In the 5th century AD, the early Latin-speaking residents of Gaul began to merge with the Germanic-speaking Franks who entered Gaul with the great national migration. French began to lose unstressed syllables. In the 6th and 7th centuries, popular languages became Unlanguage Composite. In the 8th century, the establishment of Charlemagne Empire began to standardize French. In the 9th century, Latin and Germanic finally merged into Romance. French became the only official language in France since the Capé dynasty in 939.