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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7221 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 20 23 January 2010 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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First I cannot really put this into real detail by which particular speakers of which languages, so I am going to guess.
If there were ancient languages for sound approximation, which speakers of a modern language could resemble the ancient language most. Here are some of my thoughts. Ancient <---> Modern Old English <---> British English Ancient Egyptian <---> Coptic Latin <---> Italian Classical Greek<---> Modern Greek Sanskrit <---> Hindi If there are others that want to contribute, I would like to read it. Edited by alang on 23 January 2010 at 1:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5521 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 2 of 20 23 January 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Coptic is also an "old language" now, it is not used in conversation.
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7221 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 20 23 January 2010 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
I read that Coptic is still used in church services for Coptic Christians, so I am guessing they would be the closest. It is somewhat grasping at whatever is left in the present day. I had thought of this topic for about two months, but did not think about writing it down in the forum until recently. Edited by alang on 23 January 2010 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 20 23 January 2010 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
I'm not so sure that British English speakers would resemble Old English the most. English has changed a lot over the centuries. Maybe Icelanders or Germans would do a better job. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6330 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 5 of 20 23 January 2010 at 3:43am | IP Logged | ||
Old Church Slavonic <---> Bulgarian
West Frisian maybe? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 6 of 20 23 January 2010 at 5:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Frisian…even Scots might be closer to Old English.
They say Sardinian is the closest Romance language to Latin. For Old Norse, Icelandic. For Ancient Greek, maybe Pontic Greek. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5521 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 7 of 20 23 January 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, Greek is still used in church services too, and so is Church Slavonic! AS is Latin.
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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 8 of 20 23 January 2010 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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British English is definitely in no way similar to Old English. I would agree it is closer to a language like Frisian.
And isn't Romanian closer to Latin than Italian? Grammar-wise, at least. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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