Ancestral languages

[Drakoblare]

Within the last thousand years or so ? Mostly French in various dialectal forms, as well as Occitan (Limousin) and Breton.

On the Occitan side, that's the exact dialect that was spoken daily until my great grand-parents' generation, my great-parents' generation speaks it with diverse levels of proficiency, but has French as their main language :

I've seen plenty of stuff from non-french around the net and I wonder. Did the Occitian speakers ever view themselves as non-French?

[allalor]

Oscan, Vulgar Latin, medieval Abruzzese, modern Abruzzese. Still today my grandparents can't speak proper Italian.

[Dombra]

Mostly Scandinavian and Finnic languages. I might add French (from both proper France and Walloon)

[Jana]

I can only guess. Maybe my Bosniak ancestors had some knowledge of Turkish and even Arabic (they were qiute religious it seems and muslims have to know some Arabic). Distant ancestors on Alsatian side probably knew French but spoke Allemanic German as mother tounge. Askhenazi ancestors had to know Hungarian, they lived in Hungary but at home they spoke either German (probably) or Yiddish. I don't know which kind of German my Danube Schwabian ancestors spoke but probably it was some modified Schwabian dialect as their name suggests.

[Longbowman]

I can only guess. Maybe my Bosniak ancestors had some knowledge of Turkish and even Arabic (they were qiute religious it seems and muslims have to know some Arabic). Distant ancestors on Alsatian side probably knew French but spoke Allemanic German as mother tounge. Askhenazi ancestors had to know Hungarian, they lived in Hungary but at home they spoke either German (probably) or Yiddish. I don't know which kind of German my Danube Schwabian ancestors spoke but probably it was some modified Schwabian dialect as their name suggests.

Actually, Danube Swabian wasn't Swabian at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Swabians#Language

[igo112]

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[Goujian]

posted in wrong thread, sorry

[Jana]

Actually, Danube Swabian wasn't Swabian at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Swabians#Language

Thanks. Interesting, it was a big mix.

[Pahli]

Medean, theory about it being old Kurdish language.