NativLang | Romance Languages: Introduction to Vulgar Latin & Romance Linguistics @NativLang | Uploaded January 2013 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
The first in a series of lessons introducing the basic grammar of the Romance languages. This video touches on the various languages and grammatical features that will be covered in the rest of this series.

Examples compare and contrast Vulgar Latin and the modern languages. Notes on formatting: the asterisk * introduces reconstructed words in Common Romance (a variety of Vulgar Latin). For example: *lingua, Spanish lengua, French langue, Romanian limbă 'language'. Vulgar Latin words show up in light red, modern Romance words in light blue and translations in italics.

"The Grammar of Romance" has an associated website (free) and book ($). Both offer more explanations and examples:
nativlang.com/romance-languages
amazon.com/gp/product/1475246633/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nativlangu-20

In this video, I mention my previous lesson series on comparison, reconstruction & historical linguistics. Here is the URL:
nativlang.com/linguistics/historical-linguistics-lessons.php

MUSIC by Kevin MacLeod