6 Easiest Dead Languages to Learn

5. Old French (Norman Variant)

If you took French lessons in high school, you were probably shocked by the fact that a lot of French words share similar roots with English ones; and, at times, are even written in the same way. This has to do with the fact, that, a significantly large portion of the English vocabulary comes from French, as a direct consequence of the Norman conquest of England during the 11th century. This -not at all shocking- part of medieval Europe’s history, gave birth to a strange offspring called “the Anglo-Norman language”, an Old French and Old English mixture spoken mostly in court, which influenced English profoundly.

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