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I Want to Learn Many Languages

Are you a speaker of an Indo-European language? If yes, state your mother tongue.

Spanish - @Cierzo

Hindi - @Vivaci

Persian / Farsi - @Soossie

Slovak - @CrazyMusicLover

Greek - @HannibalAteMeOut

Russian - @AnaKoroleva

English - @tallpowerhouseblonde

Portugese - @lilida

French - @revenant

Welsh - @TheSirfurryanimalWales

Ukranian - @Yulianna

Icelandic - @DarkHeaven

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Mugin16 · 46-50, M
From the world's top ten languages in term of native speakers seven are Indo-European languages.

@Mugin16 Interesting.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@DarkHeaven That shows up successful Indo-Europeans have been historically in expanding all over the world.
@Mugin16 My people helped... a lot. lol
@Mugin16 We had boats. ✌️
@Mugin16 [c=#359E00]it said language used on internet [/c]
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@DarkHeaven So did the English, the French, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portugese and the Russians. And of course also the Iranians and the Hindi und Punjabis.
@Mugin16 Yeah, but we had style. 😎
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@YukikoAmagi That is for the bar at the bottom of the graph. Not th big circle.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@DarkHeaven Those horned helmets? ;-)
@Mugin16 Some of us were Berserkers.

@Mugin16 [c=#359E00]oh..[/c]
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@DarkHeaven Do you fancy yourself as a shield maiden?
@Mugin16 My Dad said we are descended from them. I don’t know If that’s [b]really[/b] true but I’d like to believe it is. I’m 6’1” with pale white skin and a light dishwater blonde hair color, so I look the part. lol

Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@DarkHeaven Men are stronger and bigger than women so having women fighting men back when wars were carried out with swords, speers and battle axes was a bad idea. When it happened, it meant that one side did not have enough men to fight.
@Mugin16 Women fought and held rank... even commanded troups.

https://www.livescience.com/amp/Viking-shield-maiden-facial-reconstruction.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-viking-dna-discovery-says-there-really-were-shield-maidens

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/05/viking-shieldmaidens-some-say-the-warrior-women-did-not-exist/amp/

https://www.asgard.scot/blog/2019/02/did-shieldmaidens-like-vikings-lagertha-and-norsemens-fr%C3%B8ya-really-exist
@Mugin16 I would agree most did not. It was more the exception than the rule. But some definitely did.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@Mugin16 fascinating thank you for posting - now i knowwhy english is so important to me
@Yulianna This was really interesting. I did not know how the languages fed together like this.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@DarkHeaven yes i agree 🇺🇦🌻🤗
@Mugin16 this is most interesting...
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@Vivaci Most people have no clue that Punjabi and Bengali have so many native speakers. I remember speaking with a lady from Bengal in England and she was delighted that I knew her native language is Bengali and not Hindi. One of my best friends in university was a Punjabi. She spoke also Hindi and Urdu.
Cierzo · M
@Mugin16 Very surprised not to find French in the list (due to African speakers)
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@Cierzo It is a list of native speakers. I guess that most Africans who speak French learn it as a second or third language. Far more people in Latin America speak Spanish as their native language than Africans speak French as their first language. I guess the reason for that is that tropical Africa is far more dangerous place to live for Europeans than South America. The Conquistadores brought the dangerous diseases with them to Latin America where up to 90% of all Amerindians died during the 16th century while in Africa it was the Europeans who died from yellow fever, malaria and other diseases and not the natives.