holy king
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indeed, english and german are much farther apart from each other than slavic languages.
Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days
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TheLastOne36
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Dont be riduculous, I am nearly sure that you understand Czech, Russian or Serbian better than Americans understand German or Swedish
I understand Czech, you guys just speak Polish with a funny accent and some strange backward words. I was talking about cross group languages.
Americans tend to be ignorant about other languages as a result of some type of lingual superiority complex. I'm sure Germans can understand some English.
Huayna Capac357
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Cool map, though I'm pretty sure that Guarani isn't the same language family as Salish 
holy king
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because we learn english, not because we can speak german.
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No its because Americans can't justify learning a language that is only useful in one or two countries(Japanese excluded).
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TheLastOne36, you are way off the mark here. If anything, Slavic languages are much closer linguistically speaking than Germanic or Romance languages. German and English are totally different languages - you can't understand one just by knowing the other.. you wouldn't even understand bits and pieces. As for Romance languages, you could make a similar case with Romanian and Portugese. It is my understanding that these 2 languages are not quite as far apart as German and English, but they are pretty far apart.
In slavic languages? You could make a case that Polish and Russian is as far apart as you get. I've never taken any Russian before, but I can watch their news on TV and understand bits and pieces.
In slavic languages? You could make a case that Polish and Russian is as far apart as you get. I've never taken any Russian before, but I can watch their news on TV and understand bits and pieces.
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Maybe it's just me than, with Polish my third language and all having to take time translating things in my head.
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Just because they are complete opposite geographically doesn't mean that those are the two furthest apart Romance languages. In fact, Romanian shares more sound changes with Portuguese than with Spanish (careful, I never said Portuguese and Spanish
). The furthest Romance languages would probably be Sardinian and Galician or some language from that area of the northwestern Iberian peninsula.
I support that.
Winner
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No, it's not.
warpus
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Just because they are complete opposite geographically doesn't mean that those are the two furthest apart Romance languages. In fact, Romanian shares more sound changes with Portuguese than with Spanish (careful, I never said Portuguese and Spanish
Interesting.. I remember hearing that Portugese was a bit of a Romance oddity, and Romanian sounds weird to me too, which is why I used those 2 languages in my example. Which isn't very scientific, I know, but I'm no scientist
plarq
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Linguistics is not hard science.
Mowque
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Not 1925 theme but here-
Huayna Capac357
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This map confuses me.
Mowque
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Why does it confuse you?
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Indeed. It still shows the German Empire (which I approve of, btw.)
Huayna Capac357
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The borders.
Mowque
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Based off my TL.
Godwynn
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What is a TL?
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It is based off a alternative history Timeline. One of my own creation.
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