11-29-2017, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Lanfear
Gesundheit!
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Originally Posted by Keith
And THAT'S a romance language!
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No - its a Germanic Language (as is English btw). Look we have so much in common - isn't that romantic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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The Romance languages (sometimes called the Romanic languages, Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.
The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (470 million), Portuguese (250 million), French (150 million), Italian (60 million), and Romanian (25 million).[3]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
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The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers;[3][nb 2] German, with over 100 million native speakers;[4] and Dutch, with 23 million native speakers.
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