Posts Tagged ‘modern languages’

Why do so many people believe English derived from the Latin language?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

It’s not. It’s derived from Germanic languages.
The romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Friulian, etc.) are derived from Latin, but not English.
English has words derived from Latin, but only because English speakers have a great habit of borrowing words from other languages.
Germanic languages are not derived from Latin, they are derived from the [...]

Why do so many people believe English derived from the Latin language?

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

It’s not. It’s derived from Germanic languages.
The romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Friulian, etc.) are derived from Latin, but not English.
English has words derived from Latin, but only because English speakers have a great habit of borrowing words from other languages.
Germanic languages are not derived from Latin, they are derived from the [...]