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I agree about the Old French and Catalan - it makes sense when you think about it. Legolas Send a noteboard - 25/12/2012 07:18:35 PM
As you know, I have no problems with reading them on my iPad if available and frustratingly enough, La Chanson de Roland isn't available anywhere I searched as an e-book (translations don't count; already had one from my college days). I had to resort to reading it in sections from a website in order to read it. Old French reminds me of Catalan for some reason. I can understand the majority of it without help, but the forms are amusing to me more than frustrating.

In much of the Middle Ages, Aquitaine and to some extent the whole "Langue d'Oc" was linked as closely to Catalonia as to northern France, and they were flourishing probably more than northern France, in cultural terms. So while I've read very little about the historical evolutions of French - Dom could assist here - it seems to make sense to me that it remained close to Catalan in those centuries, and started to diverge more only when Paris and the north (the "Langue d'Oil";) became dominant in cultural as well as political terms - in the south Occitan still remains, and it's still very close to Catalan.
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