Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian just couldn't keep an 'i' on their Latin pronunciation. скачать в хорошем качестве

Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian just couldn't keep an 'i' on their Latin pronunciation.

Why does Latin littera become letra in Spanish, lettera in Italian, and lettre in French? And why does French go even further, turning fide into foi and bibere into boire? In this video, we trace how Latin short i lost its vowel-length distinction, lowered to e, and then evolved differently across the Romance languages—sometimes regularly, sometimes through learned borrowings that reintroduced more “Latin-looking” forms. Along the way, we explore why French diphthongisation is so extreme and why Romance sound change is far more systematic than it first appears. Follow us on Instagram to get to know us better and to join our club:   / gregorycordeiro5     / languagelearnersza   Music: Classical Piano Background Music on Pixabay; The Lively Dancer on Pixabay #spanish #history #booktok #booktube #historicallinguistics #languages #languagelearning #español