It's kinda a shame how France has lost so much of its linguistic diversity in the past few centuries. France had a period of very heavy enforcement of Parisian French across all of France, leading to the loss of many regional languages of the D'Oc family and also dialects of the D'Oil French Language. The enforcement of Language rules by the Academie Francaise certainly doesn't help, but that's another issue altogether. I generally think it's a terrible shame when a central language authority (often from a richer and urban centre) tells other regions how to speak their own language. Live and let speak! Italy is a great example of how it's done right. Most Italians can speak 'Italian', aka Tuscan Italian. But at home, they just speak another language (Sardinian, Sicilian, Neopolitan etc, all of which are regarded as unique languages within Italy). Germany is somewhat similar, although the line between language and dialect there is very blurry (with some Low Franconian 'dialects' being essentially the same language as Dutch but are regarded as dialects of German - and which German, there are two, High and Low German, with modern standard German being the High variety). It's truly a very complex topic!
I was just thinking about this the other day- the loss or diminishment of French dialects/languages. But some live on in other places, like Acadian French in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
French person who studied linguistics here! Most “dialects” are actually languages, so the terms you discuss and question throughout the video are actually quite a good debate to have. Dialects are usually derived from the primary language, so even though the word dialect has been used for minor languages, we’re trying to use the word language more and more. Very instructive video, I enjoyed it!
Hey, thanks for your comment! It might be a bit of a German-language perspective too where there's more of a tendency ot use dialect (at least that's my impression but I'm also not a linguist). It definitely has a negative connotation, though, sadly, so I can see the shift towards another term being a good thing that might help preserve some local language varieties. (If you know any text or author off the top of your head that discusses that terminology shift, I would be super interested to hear about it, but if not please don't worry about it!)
@@MelangeASMR I’ll need to find my lessons again because it’s usually excerpts but whenever I find some references I will! Dialects definitely got a negative connotation in France too. It came partly from the decision to make French the official language. But again I will link references when I’ve got the time to find them! 😊
Thank so much for all your hard work. I am not one who typically writes comments, but please know I always gravitate towards your AMSR work first and formost. You possess such a lovely and calming voice... i appreciate all that you do, thank you. Your friend G.
I live in France and I wasn't even aware there were so many dialects :0 . This was very interesting thank you !! (also your french sounds sooo relaxing)
Si tu savais le nombre de dialectes qu’on a déjà en Belgique, même en comptant uniquement ceux de Wallonie et le Bruxellois (puisqu’en Flandres on parle néerlandais). Franchement c’est fou le nombre de dialectes par langue/pays
this is such an interesting video, as a french philology student i can tell the research done behind this video, it’s not just an usual ASMR video, you also learn contrasted real information, thank you so much for this!!
I took French in college for two years. It was so lovely to come to class and hear and speak only French. It's such a beautiful way of expressing yourself.
I know exactly what you mean. There have been many moments where I cursed everything about French grammar and spelling haha, but it is a gorgeous langage.
@@MelangeASMR My favorite quote about French is from Oscar Wilde:. "I love the French language. It's delightful to curse with....like whipping your ass with silk."
This video is quite frustrating: the content is so interesting that we want to learn everything that you explain, but how are you supposed not to sleep with a such relaxing voice? Thanks a lot for your work anyway, hope to stay awake for the longest time possible!
Born and raise in the earth of occitania, unfortunately only few expressions and accents remain from the Time where it was a largely spoken language. In fact it's due to politicals décision during the past century that have clasified régional dialects as "patois", and devalued those who speaks it. The aim was to unify the country in one unique language. But today these "patois" are more and more teach, and i believe and Hope that more and more peuple will be able to speak and understand occitan for exemple !
I was really sad to see how few people still speak the local languages in France! Fingers crossed that it will pick up again. It makes me appreciate growing up with the local dialect a lot more.
As a Catalan there are some regions in the south of France that are very much easy to understand than the French in the north. You can see the oc language origen.
i loved this video! i'm from brazil and it's very interesting to see so many different stuff that I didn't know about other countries, i'm starting to learn French and this was very helpful! thanks for your hard work 💜
Vielen Dank für dieses super spannendes Video. 😊 Du hast eine echt hervorragende französische Aussprache, die ich so lieb habe. Klingt es total autentisch 🥰 Es würde interessant, über die finnugrische Sprachen etwas hören. 😁 Aber nur dann, wenn du darauf Bock hast.
Hello! First of all, I just recently found your chanel and I absolutley love it. Thank you so much for all of this amazing information, and so relaxingly presented. Second, I think you made a small mistake. At 04:29 you say "half a million years," but that can't be correct-that's a bit beyond the homo sapien time scale. I imagine it's meant to be half a thousand (half a mil)?
Like your content on languages, I just want to say that 1) Provencal is spoken also in Italy, aside the dialects of Provencal and Italian spoken in Liguria and Torino. 2) Creoles are an interesting subject about French too! Trinidadian-Venezuelan french creole is one of those obscure ones that no one knows about but that had a strong influence in the culture of their original region.
Thank you for the addition! Yeah, it's a shame that anything other than metropolitan French is absent from our curriculums - like you said, I've never heard of this variety.
This was great. I am Acadien from New Brunswick Canada. You should research the french discovery and settlement to north America from France. The rise of the acadian culture and the acadian deportation from the British, in which resulted in acadians settling in parts of new England and Louisiana.
I had soooo many tingles I'm french and I really found your video both relaxing and really interesting and informative!🥰 also, your accent is on point!
So I speak basic French as a British English speaker, so I was finding this really interesting....Then fell asleep.... Third time lucky, and well done!
As a Canadian who learned French from Québécois teachers, as well as a French teacher from southern France with an ITALIAN accent, AND who spoke French with Humans from a few different countries in Africa while working in Kenya, I LOVE your videos!!!!!! Sooooo much love! Oh and my mother tongue is actually Korean ❤️
These videos of the origins and dispersal of language are great. As is the intermixing between them. So much to understand from language about the origins of how civilizations have evolved. The blood groups and genetics of people inter-related with the languages would be very interesting. Noticed aspects of this in the French video where the Basque country is close by but language very different to the high RH negative blood type of the Basque. I am very glad that French is growing rather than shrinking in its use. Was surprized that Romanian was also a part of the romantic languages. Good and informative in a very relaxing manner. Thanks.
I didn't know about Romanian either for a long time. Considering the name of both country and language, it seems quite obvious lol. Of course there is more Slavic (and some Turkish and Hungarian) influence than in the Western romance languages. Thank you so much, I'm really happy I can keep you interested in these 😊
I recently found your channel and I immediately subscribed. I’m amazed with all the knowledge and soothing voice. I wanted to ask how many languages you speak ?
Hi! I don’t think she’ll reply since it’s an old video but I’ll assume at least 3! She’s German and speaks English here, so 2. But as a French speaker I can tell her accent when pronouncing French words/regions here is perfect, so I guess she speaks French too!
Hey, that's close - I do speak German (not from Germany though!), English and French, plus I've started a whole lot of languages because I find it very rewarding, but I'm not always getting far haha. Right now I'm learning Norwegian :)
I love how I hate school and history especially, but I love your videos, you’re a better teacher than any of the ones at my school! I love that your channel gives me an opportunity to enjoy education :)
I'm so honoured to hear this! Keeping my fingers crossed that school will turn into a better and more enjoyable experience again for you 💛 Either way, tho, there will always be other places that allow you to thrive.
Interesting to me that you would tend to classify Franco-Provencale as a language, even though it's officially a dialect, while in the German video, you categorically consider Luxembourgish a German dialect, even though it's officially a language with its own standardised grammar.
I'm french and i'm sorry to say that but all you saying is false. I think you mixed up dialects and just an accent or typical expressions, all of the french natives or locals are speaking exactly the same language all over the country, its only the accent that changes from one region to another that's all...
I speak Spanish and understand Portuguese quite easily. Italian is a bit more challenging but still understandable. But French 😂 some of the words are similar roots to Spanish (the Latin root) but I get lost all the time because I’m like…that’s not _at all_ how we say that word in Spanish 😱
You speak english so well that I thought you were a native english speaker 😱🤯😊😊😇 it’s only when I looked at your channel description that I have found out you were Austrian
@@MelangeASMR Not only do you have a beautiful speaking voice, but you also provide so much interesting information. And the videos are produced so nicely; I can imagine how much work goes into them. Thank you!
In Montreal, there are now doing the same thing that France did - business MUST be done in unilingual French: doctor, lawyer, administrator, it doesn't matter... 'Ici, on parle français' As an Anglophone and an appreciator of Montreal's multicultural tapestry, I'm not a huge fan of this but alas, there's not so much we can do! Il va falloir que je m'habitu! I have a delightful Acadienne friend who is from the Franco part of New Brunswick... their French is WILD!! That and the Louisiana French, I have a hard time with! France French feels weird to hear but at least I understand most of it :)
I feel with you, it's a shame when things get pushed in a unilingual direction. Haha yes, Louisiana French is not easy to understand but I love the accent! Which reminds I have a CD from a Cajun singer somewhere, I should dig that out again...
People wants to only speak french since it is more current that we are responded in english which should not happen since Québec is an only french province 😊
@@anne-sophiepaquette5438 je comprends au bureau, dans les magazins etc, mais pour les rdv medicaux par exemple j'aimerais bien comprendre alors il faudra me parler en anglais
Louisiana French gets complicated because it didn't start with Acadian resettlement, nor end with their arrival. Many french descendants carry non-Acadian surnames, but later all morphed into the anglicized "kayjun" label. Though also the application of that label by outsiders in the early 20th century, and it's later adoption by some of them, highlighted a cleavage of identity along the lines of English/American sensibility of racial definition. But anyway, yes, many of the settlers came from coastal regions near Bordeaux. I've wondered how Occitanian their language of the latter half of the 1600s was in its origins. Later, so many brought forms of French from other regions, including after the Revolution. Also much of the French spoken in nouvelle Orleans was extinct after the US Civil War, while the rural folk continued on until the first world war, due to geographical, topographical isolation in the river delta and the western side of the State. It still humors me to hear a Canadian Acadian speak in French and then speak Canadian English with its particular vowel sounds. Also a while back in another channel's video or some reading online, it struck me to hear a specific word from Occitan, without which, we would not have a common word or term for something in English. I forget the word, but there are so many examples of such things. A misfortune to be losing aspects of the intangible "patrinomie" as they say.
Do you happen to know a good source to read up on the topic? It's super interesting, but my knowledge is woefully sparse when it comes to anything other than Standard Metropolitan French, despite (or maybe because of) many years of French classes.
Just one little detail I would like to add : « Gallia » did not really exist. It was the name Roman Empire had given to the lands that would become France much later. But in reality, Gallia was composed by different people with different habits, traditions and celtic languages (so there was no people claiming they were « Gallian » or something). However, we unfortunately lost our celtic roots as they were only transmitted orally. So every written sources describing this area that we have only come from the Romans, which Gallian people became themselves in the end (as populations got mixed during the Gallo-Roman period). We know nothing about our very first ancestors, including about their languages.
That is a really good point, thank you! It's very tempting to think and talk (not just about the past) in these neat, clear categories, when things tend to be much more uncertain and messy.
@@MelangeASMR Yes, it is! French people themselves talk of Gallia (and imagine French ancestors as one Gallian people) so it’s absolutely okay! Your videos are amazing, by the way!
Ich glaub, irgendwo in den Notizen war es schon notiert, aber manchmal fallen ein paar Sachen halt unter den Tisch haha. Danke, freut mich sehr, dass sie dir zusagen! :)
J'imagine que vous comprenez le français, excellente et enrichissante vidéo. J'aurais juste une chose à modifier, Metz et ses environs n'ont jamais parlé un dialecte allemand de près ou de loin, la région se trouve à la frontière du patois lorrain, quelques kilomètres au nord se trouve Thionville et les communes frontalières où on parle le francique mosellan voir Luxembourgeois en partie, des langues cousines de l'allemand donc. Malgré cela l'Empire allemand a jugé bon d'incorporer la partie de langue française de la Moselle ainsi qu'une partie de l'ancien département de la Meurthe lors de l'annexion de 1871, et c'est sûrement pour cela qu'en France (et sûrement dans le monde) certaines personnes en dehors de la région pensent que l'on parle tous "l'allemand" depuis toujours.
It's unfortunate that I find this so interesting, it's actually keeping me awake 😂😂 I'll have to come back during daylight hours so I can listen to this all some more. Thank you for a wonderful video, though!
This is the perfect moment to watch as I'm currently on holiday in France! I can speak and understand French well, so it's fun to still learn about it :)
The is no catalonian regions, there is Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic islands where different occitanian dialects are spoken (catalonian, valencian and balearic or majorcan)
@@angyliv8040 No that's nationalistic catalonian politics. Valencian and balearic are dialects of occitanian just like catalonian, not catalonian dialects. The language of the kingdom of Aragón was provenzal, another dialect of occitanian.
Salut, die drei Bücher sind: Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, Kartenausgabe. Berschin/Felixberger/Goebl: Französische Sprachgeschichte. Geckeler/Dietrich: Einführung in die französische Sprachwissenschaft.
@@MelangeASMR Danke 😉 Die franzosiche Sprach Geschichte 👍 J'aime ta présentation chronologique de l'histoire de la langue et de fait du peuple et ce rappel que nos 2 pays partagent une histoire, une Kultur, commune.
