Different Treaty of Verdun

Valdemar II

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The language of the nobility in most of Europe was French for a long time, but has left next to no influences... which further reinforces your point.

I'm sorry has left no influency, French has had enormous influency on volacubary of most West European countries even through it was on the languages of the European nobility* for 100-200 years.

*In almost the same way English is the language of educated European today, not in the way it was the languages for the Norman nobles in England 600 years earlier.
 
I'm sorry has left no influency, French has had enormous influency on volacubary of most West European countries even through it was on the languages of the European nobility* for 100-200 years.

*In almost the same way English is the language of educated European today, not in the way it was the languages for the Norman nobles in England 600 years earlier.

It was spoken by the nobility in Russia. How much influence did that have?
 

Valdemar II

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It was spoken by the nobility in Russia. How much influence did that have?

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Britannica said:
In the 18th century such importations were made from Latin and all the Western European languages, in Peter's time mostly from German and Dutch (for nautical terms, English supplied some), in Catherine's rather from French, which had become the language of the aristocracy. During the first quarter of the 19th century modern Russian found itself and discarded superfluous Slavonic and European borrowings alike
 
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