by Sonia Keeling | Language History
What Language Is Dutch Like so many other northern European languages, the Dutch language originated from the old Frankish dialects of the Indo-European language tree. As one of the Germanic languages it shares a common ancestor with English, the Scandinavian...
by Sonia Keeling | Language History
Russian belongs to the eastern Slavonic family of languages, having more in common with Ukrainian and Belarusian than Polish, Serbian or Czech. However, there are words and phrases that all Slavic languages have in common. All of these languages are members of the...
by Sonia Keeling | Language History
The history of the German language sometimes reads a little like the background to an elaborate fantasy novel. The language has its origins in the Germanic branch of the indo-European language family, which also includes languages spoken all over Scandinavia and...
by Sonia Keeling | Language History
French as we know it is one of the European Romance Languages, meaning that the modern-day dialect is derived from Latin. Before the Roman conquest began in 58BC, France was mainly inhabited by speakers of Celtic languages like the Gauls and the Belgae, and older...
by Sonia Keeling | Language History
In common with the other European Romance languages, modern Spanish evolved from Latin. The history of the Spanish language begins with the expansion of the Roman empire, with Spain becoming part of it in 206 BCE. In fact, Spanish emanated from vulgar Latin, the group...
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