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Yorick · 05-11-2001, 07:20 AM

Wolgir, I heard that Norwegian, Swedish and Danish were all originally the one language, and that it took 500 years for them to develop from accents to dialects and then full blown languages. Ultimately like all the Romance languages (French, Italian, Romanian, Spainish, Catalan) came from Latin, so too Deutsch, Dutch, Frisian, Danska, Swedish, Norse etc come from old Teutonic.

English is regard by linguists as belonging to the Teutonic group because of it's structure and fundamental words, but so much of the 'educated' and specific vocabulary comes from Norman French it should be regarded as having two parents: Deutsch and French.

The interesting thing I found being in Singapore was that 'Singlish' is a language in development, with English and Mandarin being the two parents in their case. Both languages have affected the other.

Got to go..

05-11-2001, 07:20 AM	#60
Yorick Very Mad Bird Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam) Age: 53 Posts: 9,246	Wolgir, I heard that Norwegian, Swedish and Danish were all originally the one language, and that it took 500 years for them to develop from accents to dialects and then full blown languages. Ultimately like all the Romance languages (French, Italian, Romanian, Spainish, Catalan) came from Latin, so too Deutsch, Dutch, Frisian, Danska, Swedish, Norse etc come from old Teutonic. English is regard by linguists as belonging to the Teutonic group because of it's structure and fundamental words, but so much of the 'educated' and specific vocabulary comes from Norman French it should be regarded as having two parents: Deutsch and French. The interesting thing I found being in Singapore was that 'Singlish' is a language in development, with English and Mandarin being the two parents in their case. Both languages have affected the other. Got to go..