Italy: guys wait for Romania! Wait, where is Romania? Spain: I thought he was right behind you, what happened? *France and Portugal look at each other in disbelief* France: you had one job Italy! *Romania on other side of Europe*: Yo over here! Looks like we got separated by the sea of Slavs. Ok new plan guys. You go spread the word without me, and I'll just try to survive. Italy: ok man hang in there! (yeah he's totally not gonna make it) *Fast forward through time* Italy: Guys I found Romania, he's still alive! Portugal: No way! How? France to Romania: what happened man, are you ok? Romania: Da Italy, Portugal, France and Spain: Woah!

Language mapping videos are very underrated

Roman Empire: Whole world will speak Latin! Germanic, Slavic and Hunic tribes: Let's end thats man career... Roman Empire collapsed Germanic, Slavic and Hunic tribes: Let's learn Latin!

Not bad for someone raised by wolf

As a Sardinian I am very sad that my language is getting replaced by Italian. I mean I don't have any problem with Italy and I actually like being part of such nation, however I wish Sardinians would return to speak a little more their native language, myself included. Anyway this video was beautyful and very detailed. It's fascinating how a small language spoke in the planes of Venice has generated one of the largest language families in the world, and even got to influence others.

Sardinian is the only language here that just kind of hangs out for 1700 years

Romanian has to thank it's existence as a romance language to the Carpathian mountains and Danube which shielded it from being replaced by Slavic.

Girlfriend: say something dirty to me! Me: _Speaks vulgar latin_

I can proudly say that the white spot that remains between Spain and France form the very begining to the end of the video is my mother language

I love how Romania is like "You guys do Cyrillic, I will do Latin.

Spanish, Italian, french, portuguese, Romanian brothers forever

UK english: classical US english: vulgar

Iberians took latin to its maximum extent

Finally someone that includes also the "dialects".

Las lenguas romances son hermosas. As línguas românicas são lindas. Les langues romanes sont belles. Le lingue romanze sono bellissime. Limbile romanice sunt frumoase.

As a Spanish speaker, I love Portuguese because is so similar to Spanish and so beautiful. We can understand each other with minimal difficulty.

Everyone: *changing a million times and sometimes disappearing* Sardinian: lol

To those who say English is a Romance language and should be included because more than half of the vocabulary is Romance, I challenge you to construct a cohesive and understandable sentence in English using only words that are Latin in origin.

If you are adding Latin later used in ecclesiastical sense, you might as well add how French was the language used by the majority of Europe's royalty and aristocracy before the 19th century.

Orgulloso de hablar una lengua Romance. Gracias Roma!! 🦅SPQR🦅

I am almost at tears of how well my ancestors could keep the language I speak today (Romanian). Long live Romania, long live the vlach peoples !

Romania is like that weird eccentric friend in the group. Not only is Romanian the only major Romance language in the east, but Romania is the only Romance language speaking country that is orthodox (if you don’t count Moldova, which is part of the old historical Romania) and does not shores at the Mediterranean. It’s also the only romance speaking country around the Black Sea, which is a truly fascinating and rich in history region. Also the only country that kept the name of Rome in it.

Français, Italien, Espagnol, Portugais, Catalan, Roumain. Nous sommes tous frères! Imperium Romanum vis toujours! French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian. We are all brothers! Imperium Romanum lives on!

A little inaccuracy: Venetian dialect and Italian didn't disappear from Istria starting from the XIX century, as suggested in this video. Italians continued being the majority of the Istrian population in the western side of the peninsula up until 1947, when Istria was ceded to Yugoslavia after the Second World War. Italian is still a minority language in Istria today, and almost all cities and towns in the western coast have bilingual signs (Slovenian/Italian or Croatian/Italian).

Early Iron Age: 0:04 Roman Kingdom: 1:02 Roman Republic: 1:33 Roman Empire: 2:41 Western Roman Empire: 3:44 Early Middle Ages: 3:56 High Middle Ages: 5:14 Late Middle Ages: 5:52 Early Modern Period: 6:28 Late Modern Period: 7:10

Latin went from a small language to a conqueor

Disappearance of Latin from Poland is a sad moment, we should have kept Latin as an international language.

The moment you realize that Romanian is older than all the slavic languages of today! And is time to keep the language alive! 🇷🇴

Romance language + wine + Mediterrenean sea = ultimate summer vibes

Looking at the degree of separation from Latin, French and Portuguese are the furthest removed from Latin. French has strong Germanic influences and boarders Germany. Anyone know why Portuguese is the second most removed Romance language from Latin?: In a study by linguist Mario Pei (1949), the degrees of phonological modification of vowels of the Romance languages with respect to the ancestral Latin were found to be as follows[13][14] Sardinian: 8%; Italian: 12%; Spanish: 20%; Romanian: 23.5%; Occitan: 25%; Portuguese: 31%; French: 44%.

Amazing how the Romance language spread so global while cornered by many big languages at the start, like Greek, Etruskan, Phoenician, and Keltic. In the times of Roman power Greek used to be what French was for many centuries in Europe, a language of the learned and elites.

I envy Romance speakers because they can easily learn so many important languages.

The roman empire still lives

Noone: Romanian: Latin, take it or leave it

Latin, the language of ancient Rome, is the mother of Romance languages, the most beautiful languages ​​in the world: Magnitudo Populi Romani in aeternitatem latura sit. (Latin) La grandeza de Roma perdurara toda la eternidad. (Español) A grandeza de Roma durará toda a eternidade. (Portugués) La grandeur de Rome perdurera pour toute l'éternité. (Français) La grandezza di Roma durerà per tutta l'eternità. (Italiano) Măretia Grandoarea Romei va dura dăinui pentru eternitate. (Română)

Salutări din România. Mulțumesc pentru acest video! (Greetings from Romania. Thanks for this video!)💙💛❤

I didn't know there was African Romance language :o

African romance, I wonder how that sounded like

French is still wildly used in Northern Africa, if only as the main second language. In morocco for instance, you'll find more french signs than Tamazight, one the official languages.

Yes! Thanks for visualizing what I've been trying to explain to people through words. When you actually see how languages evolved, you can see the history of people. Languages tell stories (no pun intended)

Moment of silence for my African Romance homies who didn’t make it out 👊😔

LATIN EUROPE 🇮🇹🇻🇦🇲🇫🇪🇦🇵🇹🇹🇩 the best Europe, and LATIN AMERICA 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇨🇷 🇪🇨 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇵🇾 🇸🇻 🇺🇾 🇻🇪 🇧🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 The best America. (America is a continent not a country).

Greetings from the Americas, more precisely from Brazil, Portuguese-speaking! Imperium Romanum arrived in the Americas, all the best Latin brothers! Long live Latin and the West!!

Latin : I'm not dying, I have my own alphabet, many symbols, a calendar, a rich culture, a Christian faith and a great rich history of many victories, it was almost 600 years of much glory ... Money, silver and gold he wouldn't kill me because I already had a lot ... I'm half a cousin of Greek, Phoenicians and Babylonians ... Israel knew me in the days of glory because I was chosen by God to reign in the time of the Messiah and to raise the name of JESUS ​​CHRIST .. .I have many children badly, but I have many good children and that is why I was chosen ... I have many adopted children who use my alphabet and use my symbols with respect. In my glory I adopted many children who did not speak my language and I gave them an alphabet, many symbols, a calendar and a rich culture with a Christian faith ... My womb children and my adopted children honor me and have my inheritance.

About the current decline of Occitan in favor of French: it is not natural, it is the consequence of the government policy of France. *The history of other European nation-states is that of linguistic communities serving their trade needs. France created itself by destroying five cultures - Breton, Occitan, Alsatian, Corsican, and Flemish. We are the only European nation which is the military creation of a non-homogeneous State. This makes France difficult to govern to this day* - Michel Rocard, former prime minister ------------------------------------------------------------- At the end of the 19th century, a native of Provence, Frédéric Mistral, is working for the revival of the Occitan language with his cultural association the Félibrige. Mistral received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Félibres and their Occitan successors preach respect for the dialectal diversity of the Occitan language, that they consider being a cultural richness. Contrariwise, the "Jacobins", French supporters of a centralized republican state, are requiring the use of a uniform language: standard French according to the French Academy. Jacobins are fighting the Occitan language considered dangerous because competing with French. They also eradicate native French dialect! Fundamentalist supporters of a French language uniform to communicate, the Republicans will also impose for the natives Occitans, Bretons etc. the exclusive use of this standard French. With this "Jacobin" state policy, indigenous dialectal French became obsolete in the 20th century. The standard French language has become the daily communication tool for the Occitan natives too! However, the Occitan cultural movement still perpetuates a residual but real use of the traditional Occitan language. Today, in French Occitanie, from Nice to Bordeaux, from Auvergne to Gascony, 10% of the 12 millions of Occitans are bilingual, able to speak a local dialect of their own Occitan language. Occitan is also still used in the Occitan valleys of Italy... But it is also official language in the Aran valley in Spain (called there "Aranese")! The French Republic recognizes in its Constitution (Article 75-1) the heritage aspect of local languages (including Occitan). But considering the Republican "Jacobin" idea is unify the French state by standard French language (Article 2 of the Constitution), in facts, the French law only tolerates a private and confidential use of the Occitan. There is a mistrust of romantic nationalism that has been based since the 19th century on indigenous languages, hence the unification of Italy, Germany, independence of Poland, Greece, Ireland ... The geopolitical impact of the linguistic question remains a controversial topic which explains why the French governmental institutions hide the Occitan identity question. Nevertheless, we will not be able to build anything strong on unspoken. The taboo of the problematic of the language used as identity marker must be removed, because "Jacobin" Republicans want to legitimize state centralism through French identity domination to serve the financial interests of the Parisian capitalism! Acculturation is preceding the economic control! that explains the Parisian oligarchy's contempt for non-compliant "regional" identities. In a capitalist Parisian Republic, indigenous Occitans are logically second class citizens. So the Occitan question is essential: there is no parity, no democracy without mutual respect and without decentralization!

My mother tongue is Albanian and I study Spanish, I have also learned Italian and French at school. I recognised many similarities, although Albanian has its own branch. We have a lot of Latin words (from Vulgar Latin) but with the years the phonetic of these words has changed a little bit that's why you can't hear the similarity at first

1-Por lo visto al inicio el Latín no era la única lengua "romance" y/o "itálica" existente pero después absorbió a todas las otras lenguas cercanas. 2-Qué increíble que el Latín Africano se desprendió del Latín Vulgar casi en el confín de los tiempos pero siglos después terminó extinto por culpa del Árabe. 3-Por lo visto el Sardo es el idioma derivado del Latín más antiguo que aún sobrevive. 4-Por lo visto Panonia era una región "romance" antes de que los magiares la invadieran, la transformaran en Hungría/Magyarország y extinguieran el idioma Panonio o como sea que se llame. 5-Por lo visto el Mozárabe solamente existió durante el tiempo que los musulmanes dominaron la Península Ibérica mientras que el Dálmata era más que nada un dialecto del Italiano que sobrevivió por siglos y siglos. 6-El "Italiano Estándar" moderno absorbió a la gran mayoría de los dialectos de la Península Itálica, el Francés viene cometiendo genocidio lingüístico-cultural contra el Occitano y el Arpitano al menos desde los tiempos de la Revolución Francesa mientras que el Español, el Portugués, el Catalán y otras lenguas romances similares conviven sin mucho problema en la Península Ibérica. 7-El Rumano está bastante expandido por su país pero sin embargo el Arrumano y otros idiomas y dialectos similares emparentados estrechamente con el Rumano están demasiado esparcidos por los Balcanes sin tener un núcleo duro grande en donde los "arrumanos" o como sea que se le llame a ese pueblo sean una mayoría notoria por encima de los pueblos balcánicos no romances. 8-El Español, el Portugués, el Catalán y el Italiano por lo visto son bastante inteligibles pero el Francés y el Rumano son algo más complicados para los hablantes de los otros idiomas mencionados.

So you decided to give Catalan and Latin the same color? 😢 So happy to see my native Catalan to carry on the colors of mummy Rome. Gonna cry. 😢😢

French is still spoken in the maghreb. Between 20 to 30 % in Algeria and Moroco. And up to 50 % in Tunisia.

As a child of 8 years old I had to learn a poem written by st. Francis in 1224. The 90% of it was intelligible, also for a young boy. It's incredible if I think about that today.

Romania: Screw you guys, I'm going home!

Entre 1060 e 1070 o francês era bastante usado na Inglaterra, seu uso se tornou ainda mais extensivo no período em que aquela nação foi controlada pela Dinastia Plantagenet, na minha opinião foi um erro não ter usado o Anglo-Normando no vídeo, mas ele continua ótimo da mesma forma.

British still has 50% of its vocabulary from french words that where Latin once. So they kinda still speak some Latin. Even Germany has a lot of words that come from Latin

The Irish were speaking Latin and Greek hundreds of years before the Anglo-Saxons came into Britain. There are literal gospels that have been preserved that were written fully in Latin by the Irish Pre-10th century.

It's great to see Chavacano here despite not being a Romance language but a creole of Spanish with Austronesian-Philippine substrata.

As you can see, in Spain, latin never arribed to the "Basque Country" at the top. Basque Country is a region of Spain, and as a Spanish I can confirm that the basque people have an extremely rare and unknown language, nobody knows from where it comes. Search for it, it's really weird

I felt bad when both the African Romance and the Philippine Spanish disappeared :(

This map is simply a masterpiece!

This style of mapping fits this kind of video really really well

As línguas mais belas de todo o mundo!

Wow, Italic languages were so close to extinction

7:08 *I'M NOT CRYING YOU ARE*

What I love about these videos that show the world changing over time, may it be about language, borders, religion or whatever: these changes usually happen so slowly that, on a human scale, people usually perceive those characteristics are fixed. It's like plate techtonics: I know it looks still, but it has moved a lot in the past and, slowly, is going to move in the future. When one of the changes appears to be approaching, conservatives who don't like them bring "tradition" as an argument: "This is the language we speak here! This is the religion we follow here! These are the borders of our nation!", and so on. Even if they vaguely know their country has had a different shape in the past, they still perceive the current shape as established. But not these videos: these videos show how flexible certain things are, showing that it would be childish to think that the current status is, for some reason, the definitive one. Like if historic change somehow decided to stop, all of a sudden, right now, just right in the specific instant such people happen to be shortly alive. Take this video for example, pause at 3:30, 4:04, 4:40, 5:30, 6:40, whatever: wouldn't it be foolish to believe that that specific arrangement of colours is the "legit" one, such that the previous one was justified but the next one wasn't? No? Well, _we are_ in one of those paused moments, it only differs in detail that *we* are not sure of what's coming but, whatever it is, it obviously is coming. Don't think of the territorial and qualitative extent of your language as stable: it's shortly going to lose a piece and/or gain another. Don't think of the territorial and qualitative extent of your religion as stable: it's shortly going to lose a piece and/or gain another. Don't think of the territorial and qualitative extent of your country as stable: it's shortly going to lose a piece and/or gain another. Judge changes for their value, not their difference from the current status. Change is inevitable. And that's ok.

RIP pannonian romance and African romance.

Great effort. Congrats, Mr. Melas!

This is actually an astonishing map for the lever of detail of every country, even in the smallest part. Fantastic work!!

Excellent work as always Costas!

Literally love this. This is solid gold for my interest in language and geography and mapping and how it evolves over time. Thanks so much your speaking my language. Pun no pun intended! Subed. Binge watch time. Best of success.

Very well made! Great effort, superb result. Thank you. I actually waited for some French influence in England to appear after 1066, but then I understood, the extension of the English language and any discussion about its Romanic or Germanic nature goes beyond the scope of the video. It is interesting though how one can indirectly see the influence of non-Romanic languages, empires, and migrations. So much information.

thank you for including haitian creole as a romance language :)

It's incredible, fantastic video Costas Melas!

Awesomely done! 👏

Mi sorprende come nessuno in Italia abbia ancora fatto un video sulle lingue italiche , great job man...

✌️😄🇵🇭 Chavacano [or Chabacano] (a Spanish or Spanish-based creole language or dialects, variants, and/or varieties in the Philippines, the only Spanish or Spanish-based creole language or dialects, variants, and/or varieties in Asia, and one of the oldest creole languages or dialects, variants, and/or varieties in the world), specifically the dialect, variant, and/or variety of it called Chavacano de Zamboanga or Zamboangueño Chavacano which originated from what is now the City of Zamboanga, started to be used as a spoken pidgin language then later as a creole language in Zamboanga City on 1635 or maybe later around the late 1600's to early 1700's. This is still debatable though, but this is the most agreed time period of its genesis as a pidgin then later as a creole language or dialects, variants, and/or varieties.

The music make this video magic. It makes me feel things that I cant describe with words

Splendid work!

🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸❤️🇨🇵❤️🇮🇹❤️🇷🇴

Spanish is a beautiful language I would love to learn the language

RIP African Romance, I would love to see that region speak it but unfortunately no...

It’s a shame African Romance, Dalmatian, and Pannonian were all lost to history, it is likely that if the Slavs, Hungarians, and Arabs never forcefully integrated these people, the areas would likely still be speaking their Latin languages to this day, I still wonder what African Romance would evolve into, and how far into Africa it would have spread. Who knows, maybe a North African Empire would have risen and conquered southwards into Ghana, maybe even colonizing the New World. Who knows.

7:47 You are grouping Venetian into the italo-dalmatian language family whereas It is generally agreed that Venetian is either part of the Gallo-Italic languages or forms a language group of its own. You can also fact-check it on Ethnologue, Glottolog and UNESCO

Amazing video ! As a French, the only error I saw was the recent repartition of French : Occitan has disapeared since the 1970s, it is not learned nor talked anymore, and Britanny can be painted in blue as Breton is a minor language there. These changes are caused by the French government that fought to remove regional languages since long ago (and it began to work after the Second World war), now only very old people may speak dialects that they learned at home. Though recently the government tried to step back and authorized some dialects to be learned in class (Breton, Picard...)

I'm from Lombardy and we still speak our own Romance lamguage, Lombard, branch of the Gallo-italic languages

Nice video👍

Romanian really is such a strange case, the death of its state saw the people no longer care for its protection and spread across the lands as a common language.

Awesome video as always!

Rome annihilated the other non-Latin Italic languages, but then, by spreading Latin across three continents, it took the Italic languages ​​much further and propelled them to be the titan they are today. It's a bit poetic.

French is actually very distinct in its pronunciation and change of words as compared to cognates in other Romance Languages. For example, Château and Castillo (Es) are related. The Latin word, Castillum, changed more in French with the C > Ch and Ll > U and the disappearance of the 'S' in exchange for the circumflex over the vowel preceding the historic S.

All the countries that currently speak a latin language were countries with people of celtic origins, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Northern italy, Andorra, Romania, Switzerland, and there were probably many similarities between the celtic languages and the italic group of languages, the so-called Italo-Celtic group.

Sorry, but in 6-7-8-9 centuries Catalonian region speaks a proto mozarabic romans. After, with its carolingian incorporation, begins the lingüistic occitanization. It's a commun mistake, but thanks for video.

Very cool! Please another video of Germanic and Slavic

Oh my! You include Chavacano. Spanish Creole in the Philippines.

Maghreb and Lebanon should probably be stripped blue.. Today French is still a widely spoken and teached language.

Fascinating! How accurate is that?

Amazing work! I love every video you upload. Keep it up!

For some people Venetian is classified as a western romance language (but not gallo-italic), not as an italo-dalmatian one, while for other people it's the opposite. But for some people italo-dalmatian languages are inside the western romance group and for others Venetian is even a gallo-italic language. As a native Venetian speaker I'm confused, but I can confirm that with Venetan only I can understand more the gallo-italic languages, Friulian and a little bit of Ladin and Istrioto; but I need also Italian to understand something of Neapolitan and related dialects (I can use just Venetian, but it's more difficult than for example understanding Friulian with just it)

Does the popularity of French in Russia after Peter the Great's reign (I assume) count too? And it should definitely also appear in England...

Good eye for the detail. Thank you!

I love that this video is History of the Italic Languages, not only Romance Languages.