minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan
| Message 2 of 3 25 May 2009 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
But why is Latin derived from Greek?
We restore the s- from a Greek spiritus asper?
We replace artificially wanax and basileus with an older rex without any trace?
We invent an ablative long lost from Greek?
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 3 of 3 28 May 2009 at 3:16pm | IP Logged |
In fact, an early discovery of comparative linguists was that Latin and Greek are not closely related to each other. They are both Indo-European languages, of course, but in different branches.
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