I always thought English was mostly latin : r ENGLISH - Reddit I recently found out the english is germanic and not latin, it just has alot of latin influence As a kid i was thought it was latin language like french, Spanish and Italian But it turns out English is just heavily influenced by latin languages
Which online Latin dictionaries should I use and why? The best free, online Latin-English dictionary is undoubtedly Lewis and Short There are several ways to access it, too, and they are given in separate answers Most people seem to go straight to Tufts' Perseus website, which has the Lewis and Short in its entirety As it provides a direct link to each word, this is a great way to link someone to a definition Moreover, their Morphological
ELI5 Why is English not considered a Romance “language if . . . - Reddit English is from the name of the Germanic people Angle which is itself from Latin Anglus, so could be considered Latin I had to look up "one" because it sounds a lot like its latin cognates, but it seems that's because they have the same older indo-european root
The origins of English vocabulary: 28% French, 28% Latin, 25% . . . - Reddit Anyone have decent data on this? Wikipedia cites a difficult to find study by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973) with these numbers, which unfortunately don't add up to 100% Nation's numbers are interesting, but I'm trying to get a survey of the whole language, rather than by frequency, and I appreciate the division between Latin (Renaissance source) and French (Norman conquests
Why is English a Germanic language despite having tons of Latin and . . . English, like all languages, is a mix of many languages but its base is Germanic, stemming from the Anglo Saxon tribes that came over from Germany after the Romans left These languages were not Romance in their root, in other words, they didn't develop from Latin like French Italian
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Why is English considered a Germanic and not a Latin or even . . . - Reddit English is a germanic language, a west germanic language more accurately but why, yes I'm aware the saxons and all them cunts came to England (or what is now England) but so much of English is Latin derived Like compare English to Spanish and then English to German
Why does Mexico have such poor English proficiency despite . . . - Reddit Why does Mexico have such poor English proficiency despite being so close to the USA (geographically, economically, politically, etc) whereas Latin American countries that are poorer and or more distant from the USA have better English proficiency?