by translations.co.uk | Apr 26, 2017 | 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...
by translations.co.uk | Mar 28, 2017 | 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...
by translations.co.uk | Jan 28, 2017 | 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...
by translations.co.uk | Jan 14, 2017 | 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...
by translations.co.uk | Dec 28, 2016 | 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...
by translations.co.uk | Dec 14, 2016 | 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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