• samus12345
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    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.

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

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

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