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Old 05-11-2001, 07:29 AM   #61
WOLFGIR
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Sweden
Age: 51
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Originally posted by Yorick:
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..
I´m abit unsure of the Tetonic reference, maybe it is called something else here. We have mainly the Gothic and what we call "german) not german as it is in english. Though I know to little about this. The Part of Nordic languages to be the same is true. We have alot of references due to the Vikings were we can compare the languages.
Norway and Sweden are most alike and Danish have more continantal words than the rest. Finland belongs to another language group, Krylic I believ it would be. (I´m a bit uncertain due to swedish/english and my memory too..)

I will have to check things up to get my words nd memory correct.

Interesting with Singlish, reminds me alittle about Bladerunner, were they had a certain street talk made of chinese and english..




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