2007-10-11 07:14:35 · 13 answers · asked by Europan 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
if you go back far enough yes (indo european)
but other than that french is a romance language and german is a germanic language.
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
you might find this interesting if you are interested in languages. I'll have a quick look and see if I can find the page for indo european langs, hang on xx
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90017
2007-10-11 07:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by 地獄 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are distantly related. Both languages are believed to be descended from Proto-Indo-European, but they diverged so long ago (at least 6000 years ago) that the similarities are not immediately obvious. If you go through the dictionary, there are a handful of words that still show a resemblance to each other: tu - du, nous - uns, est - ist, un - ein, trois - drei, six - sechs, sept -sieben, long - lang, court - kurz etc. (You have to be careful, when drawing up such a list, as there has been quite a bit of lending between the two languages. In fact, I'm not sure if court - kurz falls into this category.)
There are more subtle things like the verb endings that betray their common ancestry:
2nd person singular -s (in French) -st (in German)
1st person plural -ons versus -en
3rd person plural -nt versus -en
2007-10-15 07:10:18 · answer #2 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each of the two languages has absorbed quite a bit of vocabulary from the other. They also have similarities through the influence of Latin and Greek. But officially, they are not related. French is a romance language and German a Germanic one.
http://german.about.com/library/blvoc_french01.htm
http://german.about.com/library/definitions/bldef_fr_Bmore.htm
2007-10-11 09:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. French is a Latin-based language that belongs to the "Romance language" family along with Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. German is a member of the Germanic language family that includes English, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish.
2007-10-11 07:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, French is a romance language and German is a germanic language. The only similarity is that they are both "Indo-European" languages.
2007-10-11 08:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by DavidausZueri 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well a little bit but when u speak or hear them u see that it is reeaaallyyy not the same..i live in germany(thus i speak german) and i know french(learn @ school,4th year now)..some words are similar but the similarities are more between french-english and german-english..there are only a few words that are the same..
2007-10-11 07:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both languages evolved from the Proto-Indo-European language. But that makes them about as closely related as English and Hindi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
The roman alphabet makes them look more related than they are.
2007-10-12 13:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Germany changed into by no skill the Holy Roman Empire. Germany changed into not even united until eventually the overdue 19th century...there are more desirable princes in Germany than you are able to likely count number. Holy Roman Empire isn't a house, both. the domicile changed into, for far of their heritage, the Hapsburgs. there is not any cadet domicile. All royalty in Europe changed into married. there is not any monarch in both united states, so..."Are they correct"? No. they at the prompt are not something.
2016-10-09 01:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by mohr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One is a romance language, one is not but both have a Latin base to them though German isn't a traditional Latin language like Spanish and - obviously - Italian are.
2007-10-11 07:23:10 · answer #9 · answered by kiki 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the languages? yes - they're both Indo-European languages.
2007-10-11 07:18:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋