LIN203H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Indo-European Languages, Scottish Gaelic, Celtic Languages
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If a language diverges into another language, (e. g. latin into french and. Spanish) they are genetically related (or just simply related) to each other, that descend from latin, that latin is an ancestor or parent or. French and spanish: french and spanish and all the languages that are related are said to form. European languages is called proto-indo-european: proto-indo-european was likely spoken in southeastern europe about. 450: borrowings from latin, mostly words for types of everyday objects new to the. Germanic peoples: some germanic tribes migrated eastward, into what is now romania and. In the fifth century, many lands passed under the control of germanic tribes: by the end of the fifth century, west germanic speakers had taken control of much of france and england. In france, many german words were incorporated into the latin vocabulary of. More borrowings of names of everyday objects from latin: beginning of an influx of ecclesiastical terms accompanying.
