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To: Cronos

Interesting chart but it’s possible to quibble about some of the details. I don’t know why they have Flemish as a separate language from Dutch when they don’t have Walloon as a separate language from French. They omit Sardinian, Galician, and Vlach among the Romance languages (I think Galician is almost identical to Portuguese but it’s treated as a separate language). Tzakonian is a Greek dialect that is very different from standard Modern Greek so it could arguably be treated as a separate descendant of ancient Greek. If Afrikaans is regarded as separate from Dutch, as it should be, why not treat Haitian Creole as a separate language from French?


16 posted on 10/05/2010 7:23:05 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thanks for the comments. This is the graphic with which I’m most familiar re: language relationships. This will make a good conversation starter for our homeschool.


23 posted on 04/03/2012 6:42:36 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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