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I don’t think it is akin; Welsh is almost completely different to English with only a few modern words in common. Just try reading some Welsh as an English spea
by xanderlewis 1y ago
I don’t think it is akin; Welsh is almost completely different to English with only a few modern words in common. Just try reading some Welsh as an English speaker. It’s unintelligible.
Catalan is very much a Latinate language, and anyone who speaks Spanish or Italian or French (or even English) can guess the meaning of a lot of words and understand the grammar quite easily.
- Freak_NL 1y agoSo by your logic those would be properly called Italian Spanish and French Spanish?
- tenthirtyam 1y agoMaybe more like dialects of Latin? :-)
- apparent 1y agoI have never heard it claimed that English speakers can guess the meaning of a lot of Catalan words. Is this a common sentiment?
- kiliancs 1y agoIt is akin in that the same sort of mistaken political intrusion into linguistics was being made.