• @samus12345
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    71 month ago

    There’s Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese…there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren’t there?

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.

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        1 month ago

        I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

          • @samus12345
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            21 month ago

            Thanks, my google-fu wasn’t up to the task. That’s about what I was expecting.

              • @samus12345
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                21 month ago

                It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I’ll still accept the blame for this one.

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      1 month ago

      I was thinking like… English.
      Sure, it’s got German and French and Greek and just a mess of everything, but there’s a lot of Latin in there.

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        English is a Germanic language that has had significant Latin and French (which added more Latin) injected into it over the years. It has to be the most mongrel widespread language in existence, which is probably why it’s such a mess when it comes to spelling. Still, it also has a lot of flexibility and word choices because of it.