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The Scandinavian Languages – All the Same?

The Scandinavian Languages – All the Same?

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language, Language History

Languages grow like trees, forking and branching from common roots and blossoming into what we perceive as “different languages” as they develop. Occasionally separate languages develop and end up, although deemed different languages by law and culture, far more...
A History of the Polish Language

A History of the Polish Language

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language, Language History, Linguistics, Russian

Polish is one of the West Slavic languages, spoken largely by the Poles as well as by various inhabitants of Slovakia, the Czech Republic (Czechia) Germany, Hungary, the Ukraine, Belarus, Romania and Moldova. It is one of the Indo-European languages, of the...
A History of Mandarin Chinese

A History of Mandarin Chinese

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language History, Linguistics

One dialect among many The various related varieties and dialects of Chinese referred to as Mandarin are the culmination of a common thread of language stretching back more than three thousand years, with the earliest known examples of Old Chinese coming from...
A History of Portuguese Language

A History of Portuguese Language

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language History, Linguistics

The last flower of latium Although Portugal itself is a tiny country, Portuguese is one of the most influential spoken languages in the world, with native speakers across the South Atlantic in Brazil and across Latin America. Miguel Cervantes called it “the...
A History of the Italian Language

A History of the Italian Language

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language, Language History, Linguistics

With its roots in Ancient Latin, Italian is one of the European Romance languages along with Spanish, Portuguese, French and Romanian. Indeed, its vocabulary remains the second-closest tongue to Latin (behind Sardinian) and at present, it’s the third most spoken first...
A History of the Dutch Language

A History of the Dutch Language

by translations.co.uk | Interesting, Language, Language History, Linguistics

Origins Like so many other northern European languages, Dutch 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 languages and German, among others....
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