How far back can you understand written texts in your language with relative ease?
Language history
Eli Stewart
Xavier Bailey
I can kind of understand Old Castillian.
Connor Martinez
When was Hochdeutsch invented again
David Jackson
16th century
Earlier than that is where it starts to get difficult.
Robert Butler
I can read the oldest text written in French in the 7-8th century.
Jace Myers
up to 5 century before the language is totally the same. And basically from there each increasingly different and harder to understand.
But to be honest it doesn't matter so much because there aren't so many text written in French before the Renaissance, most were in classical latin.
Henry Price
dunno 16th century I guess
there were hardly any texts in Polish before that
Brayden Ward
t. republican propagandist
What are the Matters of Rome, Britanny, and France, also, what are the countless romans, poems, and chronicles written in Old French.
Logan Nelson
depends on whether it was Ottoman Turkish or actual Turkish. Ottoman Turkish is equally hard to understand no matter the time, actual (common) Turkish can be understood as far back as 12th/13th century with ease, and earlier works can be understood with some lexical help.
Daniel Murphy
By 'lexical help' do you mean transliterating Orkhon runes? If that's the case, shouldn't transliterating the Ottoman Perso-Arabic script provide just as much ease?