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
