system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Despicable Me] Are minions immortal? And how come they speak some amalgam of Romance languages when they predate civilization?
gpt
The language spoken by the Minions is actually the original form of Proto-Indo-European, as spoken by the Neolithic steppe dwellers of the Kurgan culture. The Kurgan, of course, learned it from the Minions.

As such, it's not so much that Minions use Romance words, but rather that the Romance languages echo the Minions' ancient tongue.