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How long has french existed?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Answer 1

French broke away from Latin around the first century BCE, so it's about 2100 years old.

Answer 2

It depends on what you consider to be "French". Languages are not static and the Gaulish dialects of Latin that would lead to the Parisian dialects that became French, did deviate from Common Latin in the 1st century BCE. However, no modern speaker of French would understand these Latin dialects. Modern French did not really come into existence until the 1200s-1400s.

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