What Romance Language is most similar to English?
Yes, I know English is in fact, a Germanic Language.
However, of the Romance Languages, which is most similar to English?
However, of the Romance Languages, which is most similar to English?
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
French. Because it's a combination of Latin and Germanic languages.
Italian is strictly a latin based language.
What many don't want to recognize is the Celtic people where first before even Latin. Yet not before Greek. Which even Latin inherited some Greek words.
Zeus is both Greek and Latin.
Yet Woden and Oden are Celtic. Hence Woden's day (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag) became Wednesday.
Where in Latin Wednesday comes from dies Mercurii. Mercury's day. And therefore into French Mercredi
Notice that both Latin and Germanic are deities. Yet in Greek Wednesday is literally the fourth day of the week: Tetárti (Wednesday) – the fourth day
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Italian is strictly a latin based language.
What many don't want to recognize is the Celtic people where first before even Latin. Yet not before Greek. Which even Latin inherited some Greek words.
Zeus is both Greek and Latin.
Yet Woden and Oden are Celtic. Hence Woden's day (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag) became Wednesday.
Where in Latin Wednesday comes from dies Mercurii. Mercury's day. And therefore into French Mercredi
Notice that both Latin and Germanic are deities. Yet in Greek Wednesday is literally the fourth day of the week: Tetárti (Wednesday) – the fourth day
ElwoodBlues · M
French, once you account for the weird pronunciations.
The British isles were occupied in the 400s by Germanic peoples: Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who all spoke Germanic dialects. In 1066 a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, brought an early version of French to Britain in his conquest. That French slowly merged into the Germanic dialects and English eventually emerged.
Many English words that end in suffixes like -ation, -able, -air, -ism, -ier are very close to their French cognates.
The British isles were occupied in the 400s by Germanic peoples: Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who all spoke Germanic dialects. In 1066 a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, brought an early version of French to Britain in his conquest. That French slowly merged into the Germanic dialects and English eventually emerged.
Many English words that end in suffixes like -ation, -able, -air, -ism, -ier are very close to their French cognates.
SW-User
Possibly Italian. English shares some Latin roots.
CestManan · 46-50, F
Vietnamese?