Yes/ No. If you can elaborate, please?
2006-12-04 02:47:56 · 9 answers · asked by MagicWand 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No. A capsule summary is:
The Romance languages are - French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Romansch, Catalan, Galician, and a few other minor ones. These are the Latin-derived.
English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Frisian, Flemish, and a few others are Germanic.
Polish, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Wendish (Sorbian), Czech, Slovak, and others are Slavic.
Latvian and Lithuanian are Baltic.
Greek is separate, as is Albanian.
Celtic languages hang on in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany.
All the above are related as Indo-European languages. Even that does not include all the languages of Europe.
Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are Finno-Ugric. They are related to each other and to a few languages in central Asia, but not to any other European language.
Basque is an isolate - no others like it anywhere.
2006-12-04 03:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dear Sanmigsea
thank you very much for your RETRO-rumantsch
it is reto-rumantsch, because it was the language of a tribe living in Raetia or Retia!
They were later latinized and so developed a new language.
Now to your question, Yazan.
You have already got a lot of correct answers.
But I’d like to mention that also English, for example, was greatly influenced by Latin, not only a far as words are concerned, but also in grammar and syntax.
In the course of time it is a normal phenomenon, that languages take up different influences, especially when, as in the case on the British Isles, an area is occupied by a foreign nation for a certain while. The Romans were in England for about 400 years. When the army left, many individual remained behind. Therefore also their language remained and was taken up in the new society and language which resulted with the arrival of Angles and Saxons (Germanic tribes). Later on, when William the Conqueror arrived from France, the French influence was again based on Latin. ETC
An interesting subject, and well worth studying!
2006-12-04 14:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only the Romance languages are directly derived from Latin. They include French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Rhaeto-Romanish. English is a Germanic language, as are German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages, but 60% of all English words are of Latin or French origin, thanks to the 1066 Norman Invasion of England.
2006-12-04 11:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by tangerine 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. German, English and the Scandinavian languages are Germanic. Many eastern European languages are slavic, Finnish and Hungarian have the same roots.
Latin derivatives are Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and retro-roman (CH).
2006-12-04 10:50:42 · answer #4 · answered by Sanmigsean 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Five languages and two dialects are, the others have some Latin influence but it is not there source.
2006-12-04 11:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by sofista 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, others are Slavic like Russian and Polish and others
are Germanic like Swedish, Dutch and of course German.
2006-12-04 11:41:07 · answer #6 · answered by opaalvarez 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish and Portuguese also have many words common with Arabic. This is due to the Muslim rule in Spain.
2006-12-04 11:49:44 · answer #7 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
English and German are both Germanic languages.
2006-12-04 10:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think only Germanic/Scandinavian languages were not, originally.
2006-12-04 10:52:27 · answer #9 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋