What languages from the middle ages to the present day?

Erik   Tue May 06, 2008 9:24 am GMT
Perhaps there are only 3 languages that were/are important, more than a century:

Spanish (from the times of the Catholic Kings and Columbus, ca. 1492 (i.e. after the Reconquista, till the times of Louis XIV, ca. 1648)

French (from the times of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV, ca. 1648 (i.e. after the Thirty Years' War, which had hardly affected France, thus free to prosper), till the end of World War I, ca. 1918)

English (mostly in its American form, since World War I and especially after World War II). So, English will be in this list in 2018.
Guest   Tue May 06, 2008 9:50 am GMT
Latin
Gast   Tue May 06, 2008 2:24 pm GMT
German
misafir   Tue May 06, 2008 3:03 pm GMT
Turk
Guest   Tue May 06, 2008 4:29 pm GMT
Arabic, Chinese
Guest   Tue May 06, 2008 4:44 pm GMT
Depends on continent

I think Arabic
Definitely not Chinese as in middle ages was used Wenyan (Classical Chinese) and not Putonghua (Mandarin)