To: freedom moose
The surviving Romance languages are all off-shots of Old Latin. Someone speaking one of those languages can understand someone speaking another Romance language with a little difficulty but the common ancestry is easy enough to trace. Speakers of Germanic languages don't have that history behind them. For instance, put English and German side by side and you'll see what I mean.
86 posted on
12/06/2004 1:36:54 AM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
The surviving Romance languages are all off-shots of Old Latin. Someone speaking one of those languages can understand someone speaking another Romance language with a little difficulty but the common ancestry is easy enough to trace.
That's right of course. But there apparently was a split at sometime which accounts for spelling similarities between smaller groups of romance languages
97 posted on
12/06/2004 4:29:06 AM PST by
freedom moose
(has de cultivar el que sembres)
To: goldstategop
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137 posted on
12/06/2004 7:29:12 AM PST by
Cronos
(Never forget 9/11)
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