Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There’s no “native” French that’s somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic (“gallicus”) roots to be found there.
Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.
Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There’s no “native” French that’s somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic (“gallicus”) roots to be found there.
Few Celtic roots*
For instance char comes from the Celtic carros.
Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.
I thought the Arabic influence was all around the mediterranean? At least in architechture some mauric streak is omnipresent there,