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No Iberian Celt. Celt is indoeuropean and nobody knows where is Basque from. It's an isolate language. Maybe comes from Caucaso, from Africa...(some relations with Georgian and Berebere tongues) and then, when Christianism appears in the Pyrenees, a lot of words from Latin, because the religion.
That was really interesting about Basque being a ''language isolate''. Wiki also listed Etruscan as the other european language isolate although it's a dead language.
fünf 5 (or fuenf if you can switch your keyboard)
neun 9
zehn 10
I am German, living in the US
Someone school me on this but isn't todays German actually Deutsch?? which i believe is closest to Dutch another West German tongue?? To say the Germans speak German techically is incorrect right ....as there is no true German language since there are 3 branches with numerous tongues amongst them correct??
It would be like saying the Italians speak Latin just because Italian is an Romance tongue.
What languages (ancient cultures) first used zero?
The concept of a number to represent nothing was introduced by the Hindus in India about 200 A.D. From there it spread to the Middle East, I presume along the spice routes. An Italian, whose name escapes me, living in North Africa took the concept from the Arabic traders and introduced the concept to Europe.
Someone school me on this but isn't todays German actually Deutsch?? which i believe is closest to Dutch another West German tongue?? To say the Germans speak German techically is incorrect right ....as there is no true German language since there are 3 branches with numerous tongues amongst them correct??
It would be like saying the Italians speak Latin just because Italian is an Romance tongue.
One of our fellow posters who is German might be able to explain it better, but saying one is German is like saying one is Soux.... only there are/were more "Germanic" tribes than the 5 Soux Nations....
Also my understanding is that Germans in Germany grow up with 2 languages. first their local German which there are several and then they learn "High German" (or some such) in school. This is the shared language.
All the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Holland, England languages have germanic roots....
On "When I was in Moscow, in hotel to me have given room keys 234 and have told« dwesti tridtsat chetire ». In perplexity I could not understand, whether there is I before the lovely girl in Moscow or am in Benares or Uddzhajn during period somewhere 2000 years ago... "
234
Rus /dwesti tridtsat chetire
Sanskrit / dwishata tridasha chatwari
All the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Holland, England languages have germanic roots....
I disagree. Finnish would be the exception, in that it is more closely related to Hungarian, and neither language is Indo-European. In Hungarian folklore, their creation story describes the migration of their ancestors. When the leader dies en route, half the group follows one of his sons and settles in what is now Finland, the other half following the other son and settles in Hungary.
There is a children's book, The White Stag, that is a nice re-telling of the story.
I disagree. Finnish would be the exception, in that it is more closely related to Hungarian, and neither language is Indo-European. In Hungarian folklore, their creation story describes the migration of their ancestors. When the leader dies en route, half the group follows one of his sons and settles in what is now Finland, the other half following the other son and settles in Hungary.
There is a children's book, The White Stag, that is a nice re-telling of the story.
I've always found it interesting that the two peoples separated geographically by hundreds of miles are in the Uralic family of languages, which includes the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian. I have a friend from Estonia who says he understands some Finnish words. I also worked with a gentleman of Magyar descent, as his family came from Hungary. I'm not sure if they are included in the Uralic family of languages..
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three (drei) little mistakes
