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I speak Sardo, and I studied Latin for 5 years at High School, and I was very bad at it. So I would say that "modern" Sardo (defining the "old" as the first wr
by ff_ 10y ago
I speak Sardo, and I studied Latin for 5 years at High School, and I was very bad at it.
So I would say that "modern" Sardo (defining the "old" as the first written texts some centuries ago) it's close enough to Latin to see where every word comes from, but definitely too far to give you understanding.
I can understand Spanish though :) (context: we've been in the Spanish Kingdom for like 400 years, and the language have been influenced a lot, many shared words.)
- m_mueller 10y agoHow close is it to Romansh, the old raetic/latin language still spoken in Grisons, Switzerland? Could you understand them?
- ff_ 10y agoGiven that I've never been in Grisons, but I heard it only from YT, I would say that it's not very close with Sardo. I can understand them though, but mostly because I know Italian. (Romansh also sounds to me somewhat Portuguese and Slavic at the same time, it's a very cool language).
- m_mueller 10y agoNeat, thanks!