Which most related to Latin,Fr,It,Spanish,Portuguese?
They say English hasnt the power to creat new words,so has always the tendency to borrow from other languages.
No matter that's right or not,
I think Latin definitely has!
So I want to know some about Latin,however,it's a dead language.So I must to find a substitute
Which one among French,Italian,Spanish and Portuguese is most related to Latin in terms of lexical similarity?
I would say Italian is closest to Latin . After Italian, Spanish is the most similiar and well behind of these two, French and Portuguese.
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No it's not italian, it's English and French.
They have words that are close to latin much more than Italian has
English Does have the power to create new words, English speakers however would rather borrow
why I don't know
it's getting old
All languages can create easily new words but usually they tend to borrow words from other languages instead of creating new ones. Thank to this Spanish or Italian speakers find less strange English, because 60% of its vocabulary is related to Latin.
<<All languages can create easily new words but usually they tend to borrow words from other languages instead of creating new ones. >>
German tends to deviate here, and Icelandic as well...they are very adept at creating their own words rather than borrowing...
italian and spanish are the closest to latin, french is to germanized
French is close to Latin exaclty like Italian and Spainish abd it isn't germanized at all, or at least in the same amount like Italian is
Are you sure? German has tons of words derived from Latin, but English has more simply because England is closer to romance speaking countries. Norsemen ruled in England for a long time and French was the language of the court. Germany had a different historical evolution and this explains why German has less borrowed words. But nowadays German is borrowing many words from English. Perhaps Japanesse , because it is a more isolated culture with respect to Western World create new words instead of borrowing them. I don't know Japanesse, but what I mean is that this has to do with cultural interactions rather than with the inner characteristcs of languages .
Sardinian first and Italian second, as most similar to Vulgar Latin.
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No it's not italian, it's English and French.
They have words that are close to latin much more than Italian has>>
You must be so high right now...
And by the way, prolatin,you have started from a completely wrong perspective. Latin never had the power to create new words,it has borrowed extensively from Greek,which was way more developped and elaborate than Latin back then.
German is the most creative and innovative language,and the closest to Latin is Romanian.
I am not sure
but i think learning both romance languages can make the answer more clear
The most related to Latin is Romanian...
lol, now everyone wants to say that their language comes directely from latin, hey Frenchies deal with it, French is only 50% latin and 50% germanic, only Spanish and Italian could be considered real Latin Languages.
50% of French is Germanic?? AHAHAH!!!! Yes, and the other 50% is Tibetan!!!
Spanish is NOT considered really Latin and Italian has pretty strong Germanic influences