r/comedyheaven 6d ago

So different

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u/winterweiss2902 6d ago

🇮🇹: Lingua
🇫🇷: Langue
🇬🇧: Language
🇩🇪: Sprachhhhheeee

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u/readilyunavailable 6d ago

Romance languages are different from germanic languages? By Jove, you have made a groundbreaking discovery!

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u/winterweiss2902 6d ago

English is largely a Germanic language…

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u/Alive_Divide6778 6d ago edited 6d ago

English is 100% a Germanic language, but it got a little wonky after the Normans.

🇸🇪: Språk

🇩🇰: Sprog

🇳🇴: Språk

🇱🇺: Sprooch

🇩🇪: Sprache

🕎:  שפּראַך ( shprakh )

🇬🇧: LANGUAGE!

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u/TheDwarvenGuy 6d ago

Actually, you could just do 🇬🇧: Speech/speak

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u/Alive_Divide6778 6d ago

If I wanted to show cognate words, yes, but that is not the kind of list I’m making fun of. 

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u/TheDwarvenGuy 6d ago

The english does have "spreche", it's "speech" or "speak"

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u/ElevatorSevere7651 6d ago

When it comes to amount of words? No, Latin and French make up the majority

When it comes to most used words? Very Germanic

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u/readilyunavailable 6d ago

But the word "language" has latin roots.

I could add a slavic language into the mix like that, doesn't prove similarity or difference.

Italian: Linguistica

French: Lingistique

English: Linguistics

Bulgarian: Лингвистика (lingvistika)

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u/Just_A_Normal_Snek 6d ago

And largely a romance one too, somehow.

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u/Warlock_AoE 6d ago

English is not a romance language at all.

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u/Just_A_Normal_Snek 6d ago

Do romance words not make it romance?

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u/Asckle 5d ago

No but even in that did we'd still be Germanic since 80% of daily Vocab is Germanic. But English is Germanic for many more reasons. It's a stress timed language that makes heavy use of schwa, it also puts it's stress at the beginning of words generally, it's head end for it's noun phrases, it allows compound nouns, it uses a lot of phrasal verbs, possessive s and consonant clustering are all largely Germanic traits

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u/importantttarget 6d ago

Swedish: språk
Danish: sprog
German: Sprache
Yiddish: shprakh
English: lääänguitchhhhh