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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4182 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 1 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... of the Germanic language family ? What is your take on that ?
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4501 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In what sense? In terms of vocabulary yes, but in terms of pronunciation not really?
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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4182 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 3 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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[QUOTE=tarvos] In what sense? In terms of vocabulary yes, but in terms of pronunciation not really?[/
QUOTE] In every aspects a language is made of . 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4327 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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On a related, perhaps more provocative note: Is German the most Germanic language? And if so why?
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4462 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 5 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English syntax is very similar to Brazilian Portuguese one, especially the usage of progressive tenses and aspect.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4501 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 52 31 January 2014 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
no that would be Icelandic 11 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4182 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 7 of 52 31 January 2014 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As far as i know icelandic is the most conservative . It has not almost changed over the last 700 years .
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4327 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 52 31 January 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. So not Faroese then? Is Norwegian then the third most Germanic language? Edited by patrickwilken on 31 January 2014 at 6:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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