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| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4589 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 20 01 July 2015 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Irish has the oldest vernacular literature of any european language north of the Alps. Old Irish is said to
be very accessible for anyone with good modern Irish. It'll definitely be a Winter project for me this year! Edited by liammcg on 01 July 2015 at 6:08pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5213 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 18 of 20 01 July 2015 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well dead languages are seldom as popular as live ones, for lots of obvious reasons (main one, speaking Latin does not help you pick up Latin girls). But nonetheless many people study antecedents to modern languages: Old Spanish, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Old German, Old French, Old Occitan, Byzantine Greek, Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew (although that's come back to life, in a fashion), Old Church Slavonic. All off the top of my head. All these languages are the antecedents to modern tongues, and have corpora of differing sizes. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| diplomaticus Newbie United States Joined 3950 days ago 23 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 19 of 20 01 July 2015 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fair enough. I suppose I just run in less-intellectual crowds than many. I will confess I had never even heard of Old Occitan or Old Spanish before your post. In fact, I hardly heard of just regular old Occitan! Now it makes me wonder why I know so many people who have studied Latin. I guess most of it is just due to them going to prep schools or private schools that offered it. Hmm. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4275 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 20 of 20 02 July 2015 at 12:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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It is said in the UK that if you are going to run for Prime Minister, and perhaps for MP
(although not as much as PM), that you should have learnt Ancient Greek and Latin in your posh public school. So I am not sure if some learn it for interest, but rather just to "fit in" to the group to which they belong. I suppose that having learnt Ancient Greek and Latin kind of puts some into a higher social class compared to others, who are in the lower economic classes (like me?) and never went to those expensive public schools , in addition to boarding schools (el internado would be equivalent in Spanish and het internaat en Dutch. Edited by 1e4e6 on 02 July 2015 at 12:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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