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Every language in contact with other languages borrows words. Many of the French words in English come from Gaulish, for example bard. In tun there are also man
by ch4s3 1y ago
Every language in contact with other languages borrows words. Many of the French words in English come from Gaulish, for example bard. In tun there are also many Celtic words from before the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain that are preserved. The Franks themselves who later influenced English were Germanic people moving into a formerly Roman-Celtic region who adopted a kind of Latin. Further confusing this, the Anglo-Saxons spoke a language that that was carrying some words from West Baltic languages like the word for awl.
The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous.
- Tor3 1y ago> The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous. Agreed. French, of course, is 100% impure if we're supposed to think that way.. it didn't exist a dozen centuries or so ago, all its words are from Latin and regional languages, and so on. And of course other languages are like that too.
- ch4s3 1y agoRight. Even Latin had a lot of Etruscan vocabulary and used the Etruscan alphabet.
- ted_dunning 1y agoWhich was a bastardization of Greek and Phoenician.
- ch4s3 1y agoDo you mean the alphabet? Because Etruscan is not related to Greek, and Phoenician was a Semitic language.
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- weregiraffe 1y ago>The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous. Klingon and Sindarin are 100% pure.
- ch4s3 1y agoYou should clearly see from context that what I meant were non-constructed natural languages.
- psychoslave 1y agoFunnily "pure" itself is a latinism by that approach, and I guess most Germananic roots will be linked to Indo-European reconstruction by modern philologist standards, anyway. Taken as a fun challenging learning game that can possibly make ludic instruction meet an amusing defy. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pure https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pure