... pai candela chandelle candeia It was however from the Latin of the common people and not classical Latin that these Romance languages developed. Such similarities are not confined to the Romance languages; Jacob Grimm discovered a rule that links Germanic languages to their parent language; 'p' and 't' in Proto-Indo-European change to 'f' and 'th' in Germanic languages Descendents of Proto-Indo-European: Latin (Sanskrit) English pater (piter) father ped foot pisces fish This rule is one example of an early Germanic sound shift. A major but regulated change in the English language was The Great Vowel shift that took place between 1400 and 1600. The changes that took place are reflected today in the different forms of morphemes, which don't take these phonological variations into account. Pronunciation of the word please has been affected by the vowel affected by the shift, yet pleasant has not. These differences which also affect ...

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